Word: answering
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Every interpretation, of course, has an equal and opposite reinterpretation. The Left's answer to the Right's questionable vision of events goes like this: if the Eastern bloc has been sensible enough to abandon totalitarianism for political democracy--and even to experiment with free market economic policies--then we should respond in a complementary fashion...
...subjects whether they are virgins, if the answer is crucial to my research? Why do I have to obscure my scientific inquiry in a plain brown wrapper...
...Each group has its own problems, but we all have the same kind of motivation. There is a larger need to change public attitudes," Gordon said. "Public attitudes are often defined by fear and ignorance. The answer to fear tends to be education and exposure. This is an effort to be part of this...
Last year, after we selected Endangered Earth as Planet of the Year, we received scores of letters from readers asking what we as a company were doing for the environment. The answer is that after studying alternatives and talking with the Council on the Environment of New York City, the Time Inc. Magazine Co. has started its own recycling program for bottles, cans and paper. Throughout the Time & Life Building in New York City, staff members are chipping in to help make our environment a cleaner, more enjoyable place...
...former speechwriter is not oblivious to the vices of Watergate; he just refuses to allow them to drown what he sees as Nixon's virtues. Before she died, Safire's mother asked him, "How could you work in the Watergate White House and not be tainted?" By way of answer, Safire wrote his entertaining 1977 political novel, Full Disclosure, which can be read as a parable on the conflict between high-minded intentions and moral blindness in the White House. But these days, Safire jokes, "Some guy broke into Watergate. I wrote Nixon's wage-and-price-controls speech. Where...