Word: answerable
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...very same Socialist party overthrown by Pinochet governing Chile today, all the more so because it has adopted the "Third Way" ideology, which prioritizes economic principles cherished in Washington. But if Chile's generals are once again getting restive, this time because a court wants their erstwhile commander to answer charges that by any standard democratic standard of behavior are extremely serious, then it may behoove Washington - preferably with the endorsement of whichever transition team makes it to the White House - to actively warn those generals against doing anything stupid. The Clinton administration has throughout its tenure made a laudable...
...fifth candidate, jokester B.J. Averell '02, declined to answer the question, saying he is "one of their top five candidates, but they are waiting to see if I can first win the UC election...
...work we're seeing out there right now asks, What are the widgets we can build? Next, the question will be, How can we apply them to solve specific problems?" Mihail Roco, adviser to the National Science Foundation's $150 million nanotechnology initiative, believes we will have an answer soon enough. He predicts that the rudiments of nanotechnology will aid the manufacture and design of up to half of all drugs by the end of this decade...
...answer comes often late at night in the middle of a cable-TV show or sometimes on the back of a magazine. For a few hundred dollars, you are told, an invention-promotion company will evaluate your invention, research the patent to see whether anyone else had the idea first, and then contact manufacturers on your behalf. With one good idea, the ads say, you could be sitting on millions...
Audiences watching the aerial ballets, lightning swordplay and Astaire-worthy foot fights in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon may gasp with childlike wonder and delight. Who is brilliant and daft enough to choreograph these nonstop battles? The answer is Yuen Wo-ping, stunt master supreme and, not incidentally, the director of a couple of dozen films--among them some of the most exciting in Hong Kong movie history. "He's directed more movies than I have," says Ang Lee. "And better ones...