Word: reacts
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...results are policies that cater to the few and disillusionment among the many. When millions of voters ignore elections, politicians react to vocal, concentrated interest groups who may not have the interests of the public in mind. When voters do not take an active, daily interest in politics, small, well organized special interests win out over the more diffuse national interest...
...internal demands for change and has historically ignored external pressures. The bill passed by Congress, if signed into law, would have provoked a severe reaction from China's leaders, quite possibly endangering the families and friends of the very people congress was trying to protect. China did, in fact, react vehemently to the original passage of the bill and to the House's override of the veto. Unfortunately, the ultimate goal of both the Chinese students and President Bush--freedom for the people of China--requires a continuing dialogue with the Chinese government. Bush's carefully thought-out program does...
Even without a head-to-head challenger, continued upheavals in the non- Russian republics and perestroika's failure to fill empty stores with food and clothing are sending Gorbachev's popularity plummeting among ordinary citizens. How Mikhail Gorbachev handles the occupation of Azerbaijan -- and how the Azerbaijanis react -- will affect not only the future of his policies but the fate of the policymaker himself...
...eliminate most of those old Allied rights, including Soviet rights in East Germany. Horst Ehmke, foreign policy spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats, calls for using all-European diplomatic instruments to replace the residual rights of the Allies. "If you talk in terms of occupation powers, then Germans will react with feelings of nationalism," he says. It would be better, he argues, to use the 35-nation Helsinki Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to bring a formal end to the postwar division of Europe...
...some professors say they use their own books because they like to see first-hand the way students react to them...