Word: questionable
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Michael Thorp, born in Seattle in 1984, suffers mental retardation, malformed limbs and other handicaps, all aspects of a condition known as fetal alcohol syndrome. Now a court is wrestling with the question of who, if anyone, is responsible for his condition...
...question is whether anyone else will -- or can. The system's defects are rooted in the fact that one party, facing an ineffective opposition, has held power for 34 straight years. But the Liberal Democrats boast a spectacular record for peace and prosperity during those years, and no one knows whether Japan's irate electorate will force the party into lasting reform...
Since 1982 the joint panel of theological negotiators has reached a deft compromise on the question of faith vs. works, which split Europe during the Reformation. In August the group will turn to thorny matters of church authority and such moral issues as birth control and divorce. But it has become obvious that such discussions are now largely academic. The problem, in a word: women...
...letter that the Pope had sent to Archbishop Runcie last Dec. 8. In it, John Paul responded to decisions at the 1988 Lambeth Conference, the once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican and Episcopal bishops. Basically, Lambeth had adopted a live-and-let- live approach to the question of women in the hierarchy. Seven of the ; Anglican branches allow women priests, and the diocese of Massachusetts last February toppled the final sex barrier by installing a woman, Barbara Harris, as bishop. Canada and New Zealand are prepared to follow suit...
...have benefited because we have had to grapple with the question of what defense means to us. There was a time when you could only explain our defense forces in terms of being one small cog in someone else's wheel. We've come to the realization that we will never be able to singlehandedly repulse any determined onslaught on New Zealand. The truth is that the biggest threat to our security is natural disaster. So we have to have a real defense capacity to cope with localized insurrections and to help out in the region when natural disasters strike...