Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...columnist for a small weekly newspaper, I have found that contemplating a troublesome article while taking a shower helps. I may not come up with the answer, but at least I'm clean...
...There's no easy answer, of course, to I the unemployment question," said Jimmy Carter at his press conference last week. Then aides disclosed that the President is supporting a watered-down version of the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill that is no answer at all. The legislation would set a national goal of reducing unemployment, which has been stuck at around 7% for six months, to 4% by 1983. But the measure does not require the Administration to take any specific steps to get there; nor does it include any specific programs to create jobs...
...defiance that is as severe as any in South Africa's history. At the seemingly endless stream of seminars on the national destiny, the questions are inevitably asked: What will South Africa be like in a year? In two? In five? And there is an all too familiar answer: Worse...
...gambling. New croupiers are taught the "theory of craps," while Twenty-One dealers are told to slap their hands and hold them upward when they leave their posts to show that they are not concealing any chips. Department heads are required to write daily reports on customer complaints and answer them by letter or telephone. Other supervisory personnel, meanwhile, prepare nightly lists of high rollers in the house...
...essential question: Is it realistic to expect a society such as the U.S.-democratic, individualistic, competitive, diverse, skeptical, market oriented-to display a sudden show of self-discipline and self-sacrifice in response to the President's plea? Popular reaction so far suggests that the answer is a plain no. After all, the American people until now have treated the energy crisis as though it were the moral equivalent of ants at a picnic...