Word: responded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...save lives at Moscow Hospital No. 6, the mishap created a kind of medical classroom--a unique if horrific opportunity to learn how to cope with large-scale exposure to deadly radiation. So far, the lessons have been sobering. "This incident has demonstrated our very limited ability to respond to nuclear accidents," says Dr. Robert Gale, 40, a bone-marrow-transplant expert from UCLA who helped Soviet counterparts treat Chernobyl victims. "If we are very hard pressed to deal with 300 cases, it should be evident how inadequate our response would be in a thermonuclear...
...without the hope of it achieving some great and just result. But when questions are raised concerning the possibility that withdrawal of Harvard's "investment" in South Africa might have only a minimal economic impact on conditions there--or perhaps even a negative one--divestment activists are quick to respond that divestment is necessary if only for moral reasons...
Last week Burroughs made a fresh merger proposal, offering $4.1 billion in cash and stock, and once again Sperry's board of directors refused to respond. Burroughs became impatient after two days and took its $70-a-share pitch directly to Sperry stockholders, thus escalating the offer to a hostile bid. Shareholders will have until June 5 to decide whether to sell, but Burroughs hopes Sperry's management will go along peacefully before then. Says Burroughs Chairman W. Michael Blumenthal: "The logic of the merger is so clear that I am hopeful they will realize...
Last week's acts of sabotage followed bloody clashes between rival rebel factions over how to respond to a visit by an Indian peace delegation to Colombo. The attacks would seem to indicate that the militant Tigers have triumphed and are intent on thwarting any accord between the government and more moderate Tamils. The Colombo government has rebuked the rebels for engaging in terrorist acts and promised that it "will not allow such acts of terrorism to affect the peace efforts...
...graduate disagreed with that theory, saying the current nuclear balance of power is inherently unstable because it relies on a "concept of retaliation" in which U.S. security depends on its ability to respond to a Soviet first strike...