Word: responded
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Indeed, with the humanitarian stakes in Chechnya as high as they are, the world must be able to respond to the Chechen conflict in an informed and intelligent manner. The Russian government may be concerned about creating a favorable image before Yelstin's successor is elected next year, and it may be concerned with regaining lost pride after a decade of impotence. But, as citizens of a nation that purports to uphold democratic ideals, the Russian people have a right to the truth about what is happening in Chechnya...
...track how many albums he has sold and from where they were purchased. He is often amazed by the different geographic locations of his customers, and attributes this to MP3.com being a truly global site. He also receives more email now than he used to and attempts to respond to each personally...
...would go a long way towards increasing its legitimacy if it decreased its size once and for all. Uncontested elections diminish the council members' need to be responsive to their constituents. Reducing the number of seats and making elections more competitive would force candidates to actively seek out and respond to the concerns of students...
Similarly, there are animals that turn on their predecessor's offspring, the authors say. "How do [male tigers] respond to the cubs sired by their predecessors? The grisly answer is that they systematically search them out and kill them." The Darwinian reason, say Daly and Wilson, is that all animals, including humans, prefer to promote their own "genetic posterity." Unrelated youngsters don't necessarily fit into that scheme...
...which the dedicated Globe reader may respond, "Uh-oh." Pecker seems determined to do to tabloids what Disney did to New York City's Times Square--i.e., clean things up for family consumption. Since tabloid-type stories now crop up so frequently in mainstream print and on TV, Pecker wants the real tabloids to get more respect--and a bigger share of the action. "Right now only 8% of our revenue is advertising," he says. "I think there's an opportunity to get it up to 15% to 20%." To lure upscale advertisers, Pecker has swallowed a weekly loss...