Word: answerable
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Affordable housing is one of Cambridge's perennial unsolved problems, a thorn that presses deeper into the City Council's side with each reminder of the 4000-plus families now waiting for an answer from the city's Housing Authority...
...long-term answer, according to most experts, is to enable banks to restore their profitability by removing their geographical restrictions and allowing them to enter such lucrative financial services as insurance and stock brokerage. As Greenspan testified last week, "A banking system that cannot adapt to the change in competitive and technological environments will no longer be able to attract and maintain the higher capital level that some of our institutions need to operate without excessive reliance on the safety...
Although women's groups have announced their opposition to Souter for his refusal to answer specific questions about abortion rights, the unassuming, reclusive New Englander seems to have disarmed most of his committee foes. In a baritone voice, the strength of which belies his slight physique and reticent demeanor, Souter movingly deflected insinuations that he is a legal automaton with little regard for the human condition. As a trial judge, he said, "I learned two lessons: one, some human life is going to be changed in some way by what we do . . . and two, therefore, we had better use every...
...only answer to this threat is to destroy it. The task is the permanent military enfeeblement and political humbling of the current regime. Whether Saddam Hussein himself remains in office after his nation's emasculation is not crucial, although history shows that devastating military losses do not bode well for the life expectancy of Arab leaders...
...very destructive. Yet a substantial number of highly creative people have suffered from this disease. Suppose we find the gene responsible for manic depression. If every couple has a prenatal test to determine if a fetus is at risk for manic depression, and if every time the answer is yes that fetus is done away with, then we will have done something troubling, something with large consequences. Is this what we want...