Word: question
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While he was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Samuel Pierce was known as Silent Sam. Now, amid a burgeoning scandal at HUD, he is courting a new nickname: Invisible Sam. The House subcommittee on employment and housing would like to question him again, but, says a member, "finding him is tough...
Twelve years later, they get married, disproving the first question the two characters ask each other in When Harry Met Sally...: Can men and women be friends without sex getting...
...although the answer to Harry's original question might be that it isn't possible for men and women to be friends without sex interfering, what the movie really addresses is the reverse question--how can it be possible for men and women to be in a lasting sexual relationship and NOT be friends...
...other program. Since then, however, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Pierce intervened on behalf of several associates, including a former law partner. Subcommittee members have told Pierce, who has moved back to Manhattan to resume his law and business dealings, that they want to question him again...
...legal: state- sponsored lotteries, offtrack betting parlors and the like. In fact, many believe that the growth of legal betting has spurred illegal wagering by spreading the idea that "it's O.K. to gamble." So, the more governments sponsor various forms of wagering, the more insistent grows a moral question: Should the states promote, encourage and even hype the nation's betting frenzy...