Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon for terming the neutron bomb, which kills every living creature within its reach but leaves physical structures unharmed, "a radiation enhancement weapon." The Defense Department did not send a representative to accept the award, but it did designate Army Colonel Jack Munsey as "doublespeak person" to respond to numerous inquiries. Said he: "The particular term accurately describes that weapon. What can I say except I'm sorry they don't like it? And I'm not sure I'm even that sorry...
...sight gags to start a successful routine. He tells the audience that he wants to play a song on his banjo (which he plays admirably on the record) and that he needs a blue spotlight for the number. The lighting crew at the back of the auditorium doesn't respond to his request. So Martin launches into a tirade about the hippie lighting crew that thinks it knows more about show business than Martin does, even though he's been in the business "for a few years, and I think I know what works best...
...over three years, depending on the employee's job status. But union leaders charge that Yale's figures are misleading and partially false. Under the university's proposal, they say, the real wages paid to most workers would fall if the current rate of inflation remains constant. University officials respond by citing the results of a survey, taken last spring, of wage rates offered by other colleges and universities in the northeast, including Harvard. The survey found that Yale's wages were on the average 25 per cent higher than those offered for similar jobs...
Psychologist John Cone of the University of West Virginia has found that electricity customers tend to cut down if they are reminded-constantly, each day-of actual dollars spent. They fail to respond to a mere general reminder to save their money. Says Cone: "What people need is more specific feed back about how much [energy] they are really using on a daily basis." Americans, in other words, must not merely be told but convinced of their self-interest before they will alter their habitual behavior even in a minor...
...energy problem is different from previous crises. Experts may-and do-see it clearly, but to most Americans it is still a mirage. Maybe Americans would respond more seriously if the threat of rationing seemed more imminent. But it is likely that people will respond with a vigorous show of will and sacrifice only when, by events or a miracle of leadership, the crisis is made both credible and unavoidable. Then, as usual, Americans will tend to do energetically what they have no real choice...