Word: responded
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...government has begun to implement a major reform of our federal arrangmeents designed to restore a large measure of financial independence to the states and to expand the financial base of local governments so that they can respond effectively to problems they recognize in their own communities...
This may sound a very pessimistic view. I believe that the reverse is the truth. To understand and respond to present and future challenges is a major task of politicians. The paradoxes of our time are great. The possibilities of our time are unlimited for advancing mankind through the uses of our resources in humane and realistic ways...
Natchul English. Some South Georgians respond to questions about-or criticism of-such accents by protesting, "It's the closest thang on God's green earth to the King's natchul English." Linguist Pederson agrees that the claim does have a certain validity. The North was largely settled by immigrants who learned English as a second language and were heavily dependent on the written word, he notes. Southerners, on the other hand, have always relied on the spoken word. "In that respect, Southern speech is closer to the native speech of England," concludes Pederson, and often...
...classicism, however, is another man's cliché. It may be that audiences will no longer respond to so familiar a tale and, truth to tell, the trail that Clint Eastwood's Josey follows is a very long one, with a fair amount of dull slogging along the way. On the other hand, the film has its pleasures as well. For example, and not a moment too soon, Josey allies himself with Chief Dan George, playing a wise and humorous old Indian, much the way he did in Little Big Man. Then, too, Eastwood as a director manages...
...Instead, he writes, judges should focus on "the appropriateness or offensiveness of the police conduct," with emphasis on disapproving actions "that would be criminal for the private citizen." Justice Felix Frankfurter agreed. "The crucial question," he said, "is whether the police conduct ... falls below standards, to which common feelings respond, for the proper use of Government power." But that was 1958, and Frankfurter was writing only for four Justices. His view remains a minority one, and there seems little likelihood that it will soon prevail...