Word: questioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First. A knowledge base. If I have a question, I take it to The List...
With Rubin's resignation and Summers' ascension, the question arises: To what extent did Rubin's personal strengths make possible the enlarging of the Treasury Secretary's mission? The former Goldman Sachs partner spent years as head of the firm's arbitrage desk, a position in which he had to make billion-dollar bets based on inadequate information, the kind of predicament that he says often confronts public officials. To him, the decision-making process should focus on probabilities rather than the absolute nature of any choice. "It's not that results don't matter," he says. "But judging solely...
...does, the legislature has already staked out new ground. "It has broken one of the cardinal rules of American politics: Never be perceived as being soft on crime," says TIME senior writer Eric Pooley. "By their action, the legislature has voted to choose intelligent inquiry over politics." Beyond the question of race, Nebraska legislators also voted to find out what socioeconomic factors distinguish the state?s 10 death row inmates from its 165 other murderers who were sentenced to prison instead. Opponents of the death penalty believe the loosening of many procedural safeguards by the U.S. Supreme Court over...
...arms of the intelligence establishment -- this former field officer of a foreign army turned up as a sergeant in one of the U.S. Army's most sensitive special warfare facilities after having been turned away by the CIA as a security risk in 1984. So there's an obvious question about how he slipped through the cracks...
...seems be an inevitable law of nature: For every action there is some reaction. The big question is always, how good or bad is the reaction? For some time, the reaction to a genetically engineered type of corn called Bt corn was thought to be very good, since it produced a natural toxin that killed corn borers, and allowed farmers to forgo the use of insecticides. On Thursday, however, a Cornell University laboratory study published in the journal Nature announced some bad news: The corn produces a wind-borne pollen that can kill monarch butterflies if they ingest...