Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LADY IN QUESTION. Just what is the pleasure of a drag show? If the leading "lady" is unconvincing, it's gross. If he's too convincing, there's no coy guessing game. And if he's just campy enough, the joke is over in five minutes. Alas, this off-Broadway farce lasts two hours...
...heavily into hock, the worriers are joined by another group: customers. If an airline is bogged down by debt, they wonder, would the carrier be tempted to save money by lowering its standards on maintenance and other safety measures? Everyone from passengers to politicians has begun to debate that question as billion-dollar takeover wars sweep the U.S. airline industry. Says Jerome Lederer, founder of the Virginia-based Flight Safety Foundation, an aviation- research group: "Buyouts need careful scrutiny, particularly with regard to maintenance practices. Safety must be paramount, and safety has suffered when maintenance is shoddy...
...have to take on the powerful sugar lobby. While not a defendant, sugar is clearly the suit's target. For Florida to meet Lehtinen's water-purity standards, farmers would have to convert at least 40,000 acres into marshes to filter their pollution. Instead, the sugar industry has questioned the U.S. Attorney's motives and disputed his scientists' data. "The first question is, Which sugar mill will you put out of business? Who will you put out of work?" asks Andy Rackley, general manager of the Florida Sugar Cane League. If growers are forced to give up land...
...Soviets retreat, America is sure to follow (that is, if the U.S. has not, in a mood of euphoric anticipation, left first). As the smoke and fog of the cold war dissipate, so does the postwar division of Europe. With the receding of the two empires, many long dead questions return -- the Hapsburg, the Balkan, even the Danzig question. But none are so formidable as the one the wartime Allies thought they had buried in Berlin in 1945, the German question...
...longer. It may not yet be polite to say so, but the German question is back. The first widely noticed hint occurred this spring when the West German Foreign Minister, in a rare demonstration of German assertiveness, forced a change in the American position (and entirely undercut Britain) on the issue of short-range nuclear weapons. The issue is relatively minor, but the demonstration was not. It not only showed alliance willingness to accommodate German demands, it also showed German willingness to make them, and to make them purely and unashamedly in terms of its national interest...