Word: answering
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Because of the short question-and-answer period, the issue of Taiwan-China relations was never confronted. Though Vogel did not guarantee that a question on Taiwan would be selected, he did affirm that this was an issue of prime importance. Harvard, and people worldwide watching the broadcast of the speech, did not have the chance to hear what Jiang had to say on one of the most relevant questions involved in China and U.S. relations...
...recover it. And 45,000 objects were reclaimed after the war. But if 50 years later, you realize as a result of Feliciano's book that your grandfather may have owned a Monet, do you have a right to it? That is far from obvious. But even if the answer to this question is yes, the French government will give and always would have given you back the artwork if you are the rightful heir. At this stage in the game, however, the onus is and should be on the retriever and not the French government to find and return...
...answered C, you might have read a book by high-schoolers called Up Your Score: The Underground Guide to the SAT. But the real answer, surprisingly...
...Nicholas Lemann, who is finishing a book delineating the rise of the American "meritocracy," argues that the SAT-focused admissions system magnifies inequalities in public schools by keeping low scorers from prominent careers; he also says it fails to evaluate a student's character. "Numerical measurement isn't the answer to everything in life," Lemann says. Law professor Lani Guinier co-authored a California Law Review article last year arguing that because standardized tests don't anticipate success in school very well, admissions officers should pay less attention to them...
...mess with success? Maria Guarnaschelli, the editor who carried out the herculean labor of assembling the new Joy, provides a candid answer: "The company would like the book to sell more than 100,000 copies a year. They would like to sell at least a million or two the first year and anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 annually [after that...