Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Before the plug is pulled on this dialysis patient, be sure someone is around to answer the question of whether society can afford not to have me around just because my kidneys don't work...
Leaving our cars home one day a week is like fighting a dinosaur with a BB gun. It is simply not the answer. Walking, running, bicycling, taking buses, subways and car pooling are all alternative ways to satisfy our need for mobility...
...nightmare of America's military experts, as they survey the 1,054 Minuteman and Titan missiles hidden beneath the Western plains, is that increased Soviet missile accuracy will soon make them all vulnerable to a surprise attack. Their answer: build a new missile that is both powerful and movable, so that the Soviets can never zero...
...West German answer, in brief, is that inflation for economies is a killer disease. Otmar Emminger, head of West Germany's equivalent of the U.S. Federal Reserve, uses a different image. "Inflation is like a dictator," he says. "It must be fought before it becomes established, or it is too late." A German warning about dictatorship has a certain authority about...
...this instance, the overriding answer is yes. Sophie's Choice is a sprawling, uneven yet brave attempt to render the unimaginable horror of the Nazi death camps, particularly Auschwitz. This violent century can offer no greater riddle than the existence of such places. They cannot be ignored, but neither can they be considered for too long without jeopardizing sanity. Styron treads a middle course. He keeps the horror at arm's length, in the past and in another country, but offers a heroine-victim who can forget nothing...