Word: respondant
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...last peaceful warning. Their trigger fingers are beyond itchy and they launch a major assault on the world's capitals, a concatenation of been-there, done-that special effects that first deadens the senses and then, mercifully, induces narcolepsy. The aliens don't really give a chance to respond to their warnings. As a matter of fact, since their alternative to our threatening behavior appears to be even more menacing - it consists of swarms of metallic insects gnawing nastily away at any human flesh in its path - it makes as much sense to resist the invaders as it does...
...place their paws in the experimenter's hands, and when they obeyed, they were given a reward - a piece of bread or sausage. But when one dog wasn't given a reward for obeying, and the other dog in the room was, the unrewarded dog would refuse to respond to the repeated commands. The scientists measured the dogs' responses by how many times they had to prompt the unrewarded dog before it obeyed...
...South Africa for help in this struggle. South Africa wields a great deal of influence given its geographic proximity to Zimbabwe, as well as its role as an economic power in the region. The African National Congress (ANC), the ruling party in South Africa, has been slow to respond to the crisis in Zimbabwe. Only in light of the recent news of the cholera outbreak has the ANC acknowledged the problem, declaring that the parties in Zimbabwe ought to work toward unity. But as with the reaction by the AU, this attitude is insufficient. South Africa must take direct action...
...before Northeastern’s Janning had an opportunity to respond...
...India's intelligence and security capability is woefully lacking in proportion to the scale of the threat it faces, and to its status as an emerging economic superpower that is under constant jihadist threat. "We cannot afford to be a tin-pot operation with no capacity to prevent and respond to terror, and bring terrorists to book," says Sahni. "That will not be the kind of country where people would like to invest." And the Mumbai massacre has provoked millions of Indians to demand that the government do a better job of protecting them. So, even if political leaders...