Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that the Teflon is just a thin coating, that the President beneath is oblivious and misguided. "Mondale and Ferraro are putting up warning signs," notes a White House strategist. "They are saying the next four years will be dangerous if Reagan is reelected. We will have to respond to that." The wishful Democratic scenario has the electorate looking toward a problematic future and deciding that one term of the Reagan regimen has been O.K., but that one term was enough...
...company and its public have an intricate, almost passionate relationship. In the minds of executives in Sears Tower, customers are always present. At Batogowski's staff meetings, an empty chair sits among the participants. On it is a sign with the words THE CUSTOMER. Americans, in turn, respond to that attention. Sears gets letters all the time asking its advice on almost every human problem, from marital to technical. Politicians have even tried to get Sears on their side. In the 1930s a storied Georgia Governor told voters that they could count on "God Almighty, Sears, Roebuck and Eugene...
...unity government." After both leaders had conferred separately with the President at his official presidential residence in Jerusalem, Shamir and Peres spoke positively about the need to join forces. Peres said he felt that "the entire nation wants a national unity government established, and it is our judgment to respond to the will of the people." Shamir said he recognized the "special need" for such a move. However, many political observers suspected that the two men were merely going through the motions in order to appease the electorate: polls have indicated that a coalition government would have considerable public appeal...
Earlier polls generally had shown a woman vice-presidential candidate would attract about as many voters as she would repel. Politicians, and some pollsters, are not at all sure, though, that the surveys are correctly measuring the extent of potential backlash. They note that voters have been asked to respond to a theoretical situation that they have never actually had to face. One Republican pollster points out another factor that may distort the results: the majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them...
...researchers plan to recruit 60 adults with advanced bone loss that doesn't respond to ordinary treatment. They will take two pills a day, and the experiment will last for one and a half to three years...