Word: responded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That means Pierce and his two closest aides at HUD--Wilson and his successor as executive assistant, Deborah Gore Dean--have all refused to respond to questions by the House subcommittee probing allegations of influence-peddling, fraud and mismanagement at the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
Located in the F-entry of Quincy House, the room is the home of the Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO). There are two phones in the room. The 11 counselors who staff the hotline Sunday through Thursday use those phones to respond to calls from people concerned about eating problems. People who call to talk about the disorders, to ask questions about body images, to sob while the counselors listen...
...woman who, when asked why she binged and purged, tells a story about her father, who would fast on religious holidays. Her mother would get upset and ask him not to fast, but he would respond, "A little penance never hurt anyone...
...Arizona Republican John McCain and Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford, who chairs the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, would give the Transportation Department the authority to reject proposed takeovers if they involve too much debt. At the same time, Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner is devising an Administration policy on how to respond to the takeovers...
...criticism comes from both left and right. "To provide leadership, you can't just respond to circumstances, you have to create them," says Senator Alan Cranston, the liberal California Democrat and Foreign Relations Committee veteran. Frank Gaffney, director of the conservative Center for Security Policy, thinks that Baker "believes in success for its own sake and often finds specific goals inconvenient. That's not leadership or vision." Even Shevardnadze took a shot last week, complaining that "the restrained, indecisive position of the American Administration" has led to a "peculiar lull" in arms control...