Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woods was unable to give a definite answer over the telephone, but will come here to discuss Harvard's offer next week, Thomson said. Woods will be in this country to speak to United Nations representatives about the situation in South Africa...
...growth of the economy, yet somehow keep the money supply from growing so rapidly as to accelerate inflation, and to hold down interest rates besides. How can a Fed chairman perform such an exquisitely difficult balancing act? Says one staff member of the Senate Banking Committee: "The answer is obvious...
What I've learned of the world since then has not been kind to my early pacifist beliefs. If asked again to fight in a war like Vietnam, I could not so readily request C.O. status. Perhaps the only answer is to hope one never has to face such a choice. And that seems almost no answer at all. --Adam W. Glass
...highly flattered, but my work schedule is so heavy, I really don't have the time, so it is with sincere regret that my answer must be negative," wrote Burns in reply to Christine Gratto, director of the Learning From Performers series...
...brutal a society? Hrdy believes that the answer lies in the theory of sociobiology, which holds that each organism is engaged in a one-against-all struggle to get as many of its genes as possible into the next generation. That explains the sexual aggressiveness of langurs-and males of other species; it usually makes evolutionary sense for males to inseminate the maximum number of females. But why infanticide? Hrdy reasons that the grisly practice evolved among the langurs to solve a problem for the new dominant male. Because of the competition of other males, his reign over a harem...