Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congress. Norman Ornstein, an authority on Congress, marveled throughout the Panama debate at the intensity of the struggle for a treaty plainly necessary for America in the modern world. Why should the national interest be so hard for the Senate to discern? he wondered. He offered part of an answer. Those highly educated and staffed members of the 95th Congress, so renowned for their independence, are too often more concerned about gaining political popularity by defying the President than they are about the national interest...
...both the Israelis and the Arabs seemed to find easier to live with than the ambiguity of the period following Sadat's initiative. The Palestinians were returning to their traditional role with undisguised relish. Said a top P.L.O. commander in Lebanon: "There are no rules any more. The only answer left is in our gun barrels...
...GOOD DETECTIVE STORY is the thinking man's answer to the tawdry romance. Well-written and skillfully-plotted mysteries, at their best, provide both escapism and a challenge to those little gray cells Hercule Poirot used so well. A devoted mystery reader can--and does--spend hours in an effort to beat the author at his own game--chasing subtle clues, eliminating suspects, trying to fit the events into one of the classic formulas conceived by the venerable Dame Agatha Christie...
That's the answer the members of Carpenter's Local 40 had for Harvard this week when administrators in the Department of Buildings and Grounds (B&G)--maintaining they had no work for the carpenters--reassigned five union members to different jobs. The carpenters told Harvard what to do with the reassignments, and promptly went out on strike--triggering a chain reaction among all Harvard employees in the building trades...
Refreshingly, the last part of Turow's answer could almost have come from the mouth of an undergraduate: "Besides, there are a lot of good people here. I am proud to be a friend of my friends...