Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Park users petitioned the city to flatten the masterpiece to make it safe. The city has been slow to respond for lack of money. So the park has been added to New York's fast-spreading urban desert...
Certainly, consistency is not always a virtue in a politician. It becomes a vice if it means that a candidate or officeholder will never amend his judgment, never compromise on issues or respond to the shifting pressures of democratic government. For both Ford and Carter, each switch on an issue has to be examined on its own merits to determine whether it shows an unsure, vacillating nature, a yielding to short-term political expendiency-or perhaps a sensible change of mind...
...primaries, Carter will emphasize the fact that he is not a Washington man. He will continue to try to appeal to the hearts of Americans by saying he would work for a government as good as they are. If the Republicans get rough, Carter is ready to respond in kind. Says one senior aide: "He knows how to play that game...
...language from all manner of sexist bias [Aug. 9], it should become mandatory that authors and journalists maneuver carefully through our manifold English vocabulary in every way necessary to free the written word from the menial menace of chauvinist prefixes and suffixes. Hopefully, the East Coast editorial establishment will respond to this manifesto, especially those who live and work in Manhattan. If they do not, the only alternative left open to the people is a nationwide personcott of the press...
...report also censures President Ford for his "equivocal public comments" that bolstered antibusing groups in Boston and his proposals to legislate curbs on busing that "undermine the desegregation process and jeopardize the rights of minority students." Ford failed to respond directly to the charges, saying simply that his Administration is following the law and he has "faith in the Attorney General and HEW." It may be that Ford was unaware of the commission report's title: "Fulfilling the Letter and Spirit...