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Word: responded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would have preferred to have the opportunity to respond to the report before it was released," Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, said yesterday. "There is a big difference between accountability and accounting," he said, adding, "We think we have been very responsible...

Author: By David E. Sanger, | Title: HEW Releases Draft of Audit Following Request of Congress | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

Whether the Corporation votes for the withdrawal of Timkin and other companies from South Africa will depend, it appears, on how it observes its past statements on whether the "non-responsive" companies respond to the "forcefully worded" letters that the ACSR said should be sent...

Author: By James L. Tyson, | Title: Putting Off the Day of Judgement | 4/7/1979 | See Source »

Columbia sold its stock in accordance with a statement made by Columbia's trustees last June, which called for divestiture of holdings from financial institutions that "provide new and continuing access to capital markets for the government of South Africa and respond with indifference to the prevailing repressive racial policies...

Author: By Mark A. Edwards, | Title: Columbia Sells Stock | 4/3/1979 | See Source »

...labor relations, has complicated the task. The West German steel industry had relatively little trouble gradually eliminating 100,000 jobs over the past 15 years because labor unions were consulted all along the way. But Barre's reforms were put forward as nonnegotiable, and he has refused to respond to union outcries. To be sure, the government has offered a variety of benefits to ease the pain: retraining programs, retirement at age 55, and severance pay of $11,700 for workers who quit voluntarily. The government has also tried to attract new industries to the areas where layoffs have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Steel, Surgery and Survival | 3/26/1979 | See Source »

...sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing and base ball, the risk of embarrassment is high and the distance between competence and true distinction enormous. Most American children are taught English, and kids on the sand lot learn baseball's vocabulary of moves. The hard part is turning such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Green Thoughts | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

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