Word: answer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want less to be better," says Devin Schaumburg, 20, of Knoxville. "If we're just trying to pick up the pieces, put it all back together, is there a label for that?" That's a laudable notion, but don't hold your breath till they find their answer. "They are finally out there, saying 'Pay attention to us,' but I've never heard them think of a single thing that defines them," says Martha Farnsworth Riche, national editor of American Demographics magazine...
...then, standing in front of a bulletin board on Dunster St., that I realized that none of that painful labor would be necessary. Posted on a sheet of light blue paper was the answer to my summer job woes...
...Quebeckers are perplexed. They find it hard to understand why a deal that was supported by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and approved by eight of ten provincial legislatures representing 94% of the population could have been blocked by a handful of politicians in provinces like Manitoba and Newfoundland. The answer, it seems, is not so much that the naysayers were hostile to Quebec as that they were determined that other Canadians must be granted the same recognition...
...forms has become de rigueur as the 20th century draws to a close. When Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited Canada on his way to the U.S. last May, reporters asked him if he felt any sympathy for Mulroney's problems with nationalism. He ducked the question with a long answer praising "national honor" but rejecting "negative" forms of "supernationalism." In fact, Gorbachev's troubles -- with at least three of the 15 Soviet republics bent on full independence and most others demanding sovereignty -- are far more severe than the Canadian Prime Minister...
...chambers vary, but the short answer is no, if you have in mind the final opinion. I'll be glad to describe what I usually did: before the case was argued, having read the briefs, I would write a memorandum myself in which I summarized how I thought the case should be decided and how the opinion should be written. I would give that to a law clerk who would then give me what we call a bench memo. If the case was assigned to me to write, that law clerk in all probability would submit in triple-space form...