Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing number of harried borrowers are showing up regularly at credit counselors' doors. "We've got more business than we can respond to," says Andrew McGehee, executive director of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of South Florida. "Obviously, the problem is getting worse." McGehee's nonprofit service advised 2,244 families last year, up 17% from 1983. He expects to surpass that this year. The National Foundation for Consumer Credit, which operates 245 offices around the U.S., said consumers are now arriving for advice in greater numbers than at any time in the past five years...
...defeat will increase pressure on Thatcher from moderate Tories, known as the "wets," to respond to Britain's 13.4% unemployment rate with stepped- up spending for public-sector jobs. The dissident Conservatives, including ex-Foreign Secretary Francis Pym, fear that unless the Prime Minister shows more compassion about unemployment, the centrist alliance between the Liberal and Social Democratic parties will continue to erode Tory support...
...Once you've been out of a college setting for a number of years, you tend to respond to situations on a hunch. Here are findings that say that many of the hunches are correct ones," says one principals...
...Vietnamese refugees, and he contends that the AIM show is a legitimate way to air some of those concerns. "I think a response mechanism of some sort is badly needed on TV," says Chase. "And there's no reason in the world why a producer ought not to respond to attacks...
...Iran, there is certain to be terrorism in the U.S.," says Robert Kupperman, co-author of the respected book Terrorism: Threat, Reality, Response. There are thousands of Iranians in the U.S., Kupperman notes, and the Ayatullah Khomeini has among them "a network in place which could respond almost immediately...