Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, on the heels of change in governments across the world, an old, haunting question poses itself anew to our generation, beckoning for an answer as never before. As hundreds of thousands of Berliners and their compatriots worldwide celebrate the political erasure of the Berlin Wall, Americans find again in the history of Europe our own future in liberal democracy and economics...
...only to "social organizations," shouldn't Harvard be encouraging the "time-to-time" campus activity of other political or governmental groups? If Harvard students are involved, should we fail to officially sanction the voices of the Ku Klux Klan, of neo-Nazi groups, of McCarthy-like Communist scares? The answer to these questions is obvious. No! We cannot allow this type of behavior to be expressed on our campus. It is a direct attack on the human dignity accorded to all members of the Harvard community...
...Power Broker (1974), a 1,200-page study of New York City master builder Robert Moses. The Power Broker is an obligatory book for understanding modern urban politics. In turning to L.B.J., Caro shifted his focus from how New York City works to what makes the nation run. The answer is not surprising. As Franklin Roosevelt's factotum Tommy ("the Cork") Corcoran responded when Caro asked how the young L.B.J. gained power, "Money, kid. But you'll never be able to write about...
...then, did Ortega venture so much opprobrium abroad to score points at home in a race that, by most accounts, he was already winning? The answer may lie in a poll published two weeks ago by the Nicaraguan Institute of Public Opinion. With nearly 90% of Nicaragua's 1.97 million voters registered, large numbers of them as the result of a Sandinista campaign, Ortega led the opposition by 26% to 21%. Yet the Institute's sample showed that 46% remained undecided -- more than enough to make any candidate for office extremely uneasy...
Last year, the Quakers dominated Harvard in a 52-13 decision, narrowing their deficit in the overall series to 37-20-2. This year, Harvard (3-5 overall, 3-2 Ivy) looks to answer the call, coming off a 27-14 win over Brown last week...