Word: responded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard bigwigs were asked "for the titles of four to six books and the reasons why each book came to mind," as the editors write in their introduction. Some big names, including professors Bernard Bailyn, Stephen Jay Gould, John Kenneth Galbraith and Stanley Hoffmann even took the time to respond. Alan Dershowitz is not represented, maybe because respondents were not allowed to list their own works...
Idaho Fair Share, a local consumer-advocacy group, attacked W.W.P.'s novel plan as a "welfare program for the rich." Company officials, however, respond that hot tubs, which currently cost about $2,000 apiece, are affordable items for most middle-class families. Moreover, W.W.P. maintains, by increasing energy usage the company can hold down rates for all customers. So far, though, most of the utility's frugal customers seem to look upon hot tubs, affordable or not, as frivolous purchases. Only about 30 have bought tubs during the first seven weeks of the program, well short of W.W.P.'s ultimate...
Still more debate centers around safety concerns. Adversaries contend that the treatment changes the chemical composition of food and can create carcinogens, such as benzene, formaldehyde and substances called unique radiolytic products (URPs). Those who favor the process respond that the quantities of toxic chemicals are minute, that they occur naturally (like benzene in eggs), and that some cooking methods -- frying, for example -- also generate small amounts of carcinogens. As for the URPs, they are not new creations at all, says the FDA, but simply existing chemicals that have not been detected before in the human diet. "There...
Occasionally, will use this space to let readers respond in detail to a story involving complex issues...
...trouble is that Americans tend to think of athletes as godlike beings. To be a professional athlete one must be an exceptional athlete, not an exceptional person. Drug use is just one way that mediocre individuals respond to financial success...