Word: respondents
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Meese then took the matter forcefully into his own hands. He issued a call for an independent counsel to conduct "a fair and complete hearing" so that he could respond "to any charge raised against me." Meese vowed to "pursue the vindication of my name, the honor of my family and the confidence of the President...
Many women consider cocaine an aphrodisiac. Says Ronald Siegel, a psychopharmacologist at the U.C.L.A. School of Medicine: "Women respond more euphorically and ecstatically than males to sex with coke and rate their sexual experiences with cocaine much higher than males do." Others in the drug field, however, say that such a response occurs among highly suggestible people and is mostly a placebo effect...
Geographically and artistically, this festival occupies the center. Most of its plays come straight from the regional-theater heartland, in which everyday characters, often from the Midwest middle class, respond to family crises in the plainsong cadences of naturalism. For these people communication is hard enough; eloquence would be a suspect luxury. You have to listen hard to catch both the humor and the despair in a mother's complaint on returning from the supermarket: "Why are modern groceries so heavy?" (from Lee Blessing's Independence, a mother-and-daughters drama that plays like Crimes of the Heart...
...acceptance for the "Yale solution" because, he says, the government can recover more money from the universities through the effort reporting and auditing process. Although he has never met a government auditor face to face, Lang remains unimpressed by the written answers to his mailings to HHS. "When they respond, they respond either by false statements or by fudging," he says. "The HHS auditors constitute a threat to science, to the independence of universities...
Lawyers are no different from others. A few are dishonest and unscrupulous, but most are decent individuals trying to do well. It is disquieting to have the Chief Justice publicly berate the entire profession. One wonders how he would respond to an attorney who appeared before his court similarly misinformed...