Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East German troops poured out of trucks all along the 25-mile border between East and West Berlin. In a matter of hours, the Communist soldiers had thrown up the hideous concrete-block wall that became the instant symbol of cold war realities. The Western capitals were paralyzed; to respond would be to risk thermonuclear war. Yet in accepting the Berlin Wall, the West was forced to live with the fact that families would be divided and a whole people would be left with no exit. That a city of 3,000,000-2,000,000 of them sealed...
...other dilemmas common to conventional adoption. How and when should they tell a child about his origins? How can a youngster learn to master what psychiatrists say is a common fear -that his natural parents abandoned him because there was something wrong with him? How should adoptive parents respond to a youngster's curiosity about his biological family...
...politics that is taking place this week in Santa Fe. They share the special excitement of working on an intellectual frontier where even undergraduate research projects can excavate significant fresh information-although the significance of some such details may well escape the layman. When one Columbia professor could not respond to a student's question about the most prominent purge victim of the Cultural Revolution, the student found the answer and tacked up a card on the bulletin board: "Notice! Liu Shao-chi first attacked by name at a rally in Inner Mongolia by a tobacco factory worker...
...making their pledges in writing, while chiefs of major nationally owned businesses have also agreed to go along. The Conservatives hope that the package will soften labor's wage demands. The Trades Union Congress hailed the stimulating aspects of the move, but union chiefs guardedly agreed to "respond" on wage restraints only if the upward sweep of prices is indeed checked...
...Stans has good reason for vigorously defending The System. But there is a growing doubt among corporate leaders that personable "Maury" Stans is prepared to recognize its deficiencies. And that is an equally important part of his job, especially at a time when many businessmen know that they must respond to rising public criticism. In his 21 years as the Nixon Administration's top spokesman for business, Stans has earned a reputation as an unyielding conservative on almost every issue, including several on which the President favors change...