Word: questioning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behavior and international law in holding the hostages and warned of "grave consequences" if any are harmed. He vowed that the U.S. "will never yield to blackmail or international terrorism." Said he: "There are some conditions, prices, for the hostages that this country will not pay." Responding to a question about the debate that has already begun over whether he (hould have allowed the Shah to enter the U.S. in the first place, Carter stoutly declared that he had "no regrets and no apologies...
...makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys. IS SKIN PERFECTIBLE? catechize the covers. Is man? you think is the older question, but inured to devaluations of this sort, you study the booklet from cover to cover...
...question was just to put a program together for women that is economical, and to fight through that stereotype image and myth about the female being the weaker sex and all those things which is a bunch of crap." Arnold sounded a little like Henry Kissinger, a little like Bela Lugosi. He told Hercules about how women have 25-30 per cent fewer muscle cells, how they don't have testosterone, how he never met a woman who was satisfied with her looks. Then...
King praised Carter's domestic policies in a 20 minute question-and-answer period, particularly praising energy programs that are of major importance to Massachusetts...
Whether or not the roundhouse threat was genuine, the danger was that OPEC'S big depositors would grow wary about the stability of the world's banking system, perhaps even calling into question the value of money itself. A number of OPEC nations might even decide that it was wiser to keep oil in the ground instead of pumping up so much of it in exchange for mere paper. At the moment that Banisadr was posturing, U.S. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was jetting to Saudi Arabia, to try to persuade Persian Gulf leaders not to cut their...