Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finding more oil is not the answer to energy needs; a coherent policy encouraging fuel conservation is. The pressure to drill more wells in Alaska stems in large part from the recent relapse into energy profligacy. During the Reagan years, speed limits rose, more stringent fuel-efficiency standards for new cars were postponed, and alternative-energy research programs were slashed. As a result, the U.S. appetite for oil rose from 5.6 billion bbl. in 1983 to 6.3 billion last year...
...months the parties negotiated over a 30-ft.-across round table for unprecedented political freedoms. "Why a 30-ft. table?" went a Polish joke making the rounds as the talks got under way. Answer: "Because the world spitting record is only 15 ft." In the end, however, the two sides managed to craft a new political order intended to save their country from economic ruin and social chaos...
...general, visitors, press people and so on. Even some of our own political leaders are saying it. I know our Arab people. If you ask me whether they can see real determination on the Jewish side, that all of us are united in our determination to stand fast, the answer is no. They see confusion. That gives them the wrong impression that sooner or later Israel will withdraw. It also encourages them to think that if they put on more pressure, it will happen sooner...
...your answer is never withdraw from the West Bank -- Samaria, Judea -- and Gaza...
...their problem. We made a great mistake in 1970 when we sent our forces to save Hussein. I recommended against it. As I see it, a vast majority in this country is together when it comes to the issue of whether there should be a second Palestinian state. The answer is no, because everyone knows Jordan is already a Palestinian state...