Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife's name. She now claims that it was an outright gift and that she paid capital gains tax on the profits when the shares were sold in 1972. But he insists that the stock was only hers to hold in trust, even though in an answer to one of Betty's lawyer's written questions, he referred to it as a "gift." Asked a lawyer for his wife: "That's pretty concise, isn't it, Senator?" Replied Talmadge: "A little too concise." Talmadge quickly amended his answer...
...raised the question of territorial compromise with Sadat. Begin refused to listen. "Sadat is talking about minor adjustments only," he continued. "Now I will tell you why you didn't raise the question about a territorial compromise. You are a clever man. You knew what kind of an answer you would get, and that...
Among other things, the trials focused new attention on how-and how fairly -justice is administered in the Soviet Union today. The answer seems to be: much better than in the days of Stalin, when enemies of the state would be shot or sent off to labor camps with or without summary trials. But while the forms of legality are more closely observed today, political repression persists...
...across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise. Would there or would there not be a postal strike in the morning? The answer came shortly after 4 a.m. Washington, D.C., time, when Emmet Andrews, head of the American Postal Workers Union, emerged bleary-eyed from behind closed doors at the offices of the Federal Mediation Service. After a tense, all-night bargaining session that capped 17 weeks of talks between the U.S. Postal Service and its 570,000 unionized employees, agreement had been reached on a new three...
...collar can bite the neck. But among the tunics, togas, jerkins, buff coats, cassocks, sweatshirts, turtlenecks and other garments that humans have experimented with down the long centuries, there must be some arrangement that will get a man past the maitre d'. A necktie cannot be the final answer. A man's clothes should not throttle him. -Lance Morrow