Word: answers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Absolutely, yes. This question is complex, but there is a tendency by vested interests to make it more complicated than it really is. They throw out things like, 'Where would we get chrome from? Russia is the only other country that produces chrome.' My answer is, 'You get chrome from Russia.' They say, 'Why should Russia give it to us?' I say, 'Why should you give Russia all that wheat and corn?' And I have another answer, which I call my Elks-Rotarians argument: if chrome and gold and uranium are that important to the West, where's the West...
Somewhere in all of this Hampton is trying to ask the old "Who are the real savages?" question. A noble enough endeavor, no doubt, but the mere juxtaposition of primitive (pure) natives with westernized fellow Indians or vicious white men cannot answer any of the questions Hampton raises in this show...
...hood and pulls it open. He mutters under his breath--he can't understand why "they" broke into his car. The battery is still there but the ignition has been tampered with. The officer asks his affiliation with Harvard. "I don't do anything at Harvard," he answers unperturbed. The officers are puzzled. The straightforwardness of his answer brings smiles to their faces, because the parking lot is reserved for Harvard affiliates. "I'm a retired colonel in the Corps of Engineers," the man quickly retorts...
...responsible for everything that appears in the magazine, for how the magazine shapes its picture of the world each week, and Alex relished that responsibility. His editing pencil raced across the copy, deleting, adding, transposing, scribbling questions in the margin. When the phone interrupted him, he would always answer it himself, avoiding the wasted word hello and simply stating: "Alexander...
...country's Prime Minister, Patrick Roland John, 40, believes the answer to Dominica's plight is in a local brand of socialism. John talks of "the populace of Dominica being able to manage their resources" and of agribusiness joint ventures involving foreign capital, local private investors and government money...