Word: answer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...East Coast audience was noticably taken aback by my answer. I wasn't from Long Island, Washington or New Jersey. They looked curiously at my bow tie, evidently wondering how I learned to tie one while slopping hogs and milking cows. I think they were more surprised that there were actually Jews living in Iowa...
...comes in, he is underestimated -- too young, too inexperienced -- and then he surpasses people's expectations." In other words, Quayle first gets the job and then gets qualified for it. But for a politician, getting the job is the primal qualification. How did he succeed at that? The only answer his critics have been able to come up with is a false one -- family influence...
...lots of memos, and I throw away lots of memos. But I thought I would share with you this wry note that I recently received from Alexander Tresniowski, one of the seven staffers who answer letters from our readers...
...used 225 words in answer to my short note. It is easy to see the same message could have been conveyed with six: 'We know, but we don't care.' " (Frown...
When you telephone the building, they answer as the "American Repertory Theater [ART]. "Stationery issued by the company--which used to carry the letterhead "The ART at the Loeb"--has dropped its tag. And the banner hanging outside makes no mention of the Loeb Drama Center...