Word: answers
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...asked me about getting to the top in acting and making movies -- becoming like a Clint Eastwood or a Warren Beatty or a Burt Reynolds -- people would say, 'Do you know what it takes to get there? How are you going to do it?' I didn't have an answer. But something was in me that made me feel like it was going to happen...
...demographic make-over. As quickly as possible, Kuwait's population will be dramatically reduced, perhaps even halved. "How * do you get people to actually stop being lazy?" asks Ambassador Saud. "Why should anyone care about a real education, or making do with fewer handouts?" asks Hasan al-Ebraheem. The answer is that nothing will change unless everything changes. And the way for everything to change is to take a country that had more than 2 million people before August and recreate it with only 1 million. "The only way to exit the trap of dependency," says Tareq al- Suwaidan...
...Many citizens are tired of being asked to become lawmakers when they enter voting booths and decide on the merits of intricate policy questions that are supposed to be the province of Congress and state legislatures. Environmentalists might also reconsider their tendency to favor more government regulation as the answer to most ecological problems. In Washington State voters rejected a ballot initiative that would have put curbs on development, partly because they feared it would mean new government intrusions into their lives. Regulations that lead to the creation of new bureaucracies are not attractive to citizens...
...answer the Democrats. By a vote of 177 to 37, the House Democratic Caucus passed a nonbinding resolution stating that unless American lives are in immediate danger, the President may not initiate an offensive action in the Persian Gulf without first obtaining congressional approval. On the same day, in a packed Washington courtroom, Federal Judge Harold Greene heard oral arguments in Dellums v. Bush, a petition by 54 congressional Democrats seeking an injunction that would bar the President from taking offensive action against Iraq without the prior consent of Congress...
...weary Lebanese greeted the pullout warily. Fighting between rebellious militias scuttled efforts to unify Beirut in 1976 and 1984. Asked a commentator on a Beirut radio station: "What guarantees do we really have that history won't repeat itself?" The answer may come during the next phase of the peace plan, which calls for the government to disband the rival militias and implement a system that would address the concerns of both Muslims and Christians...