Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Taft, not particularly amused, waited 29 seconds to respond. She again rushed end to end and shot high on Kryspin, who blocked the shot. The puck sailed up 10 feet and drifted back down on the other side of the goal line...
...Stop the escalation of warfare at the border between conventional warfare and nuclear warfare of any kind. There is no such thing as "limited" nuclear war, meaning that any use of nukes would probably lead to an all-out exchange. Respond to Soviet aggression in kind and do not attempt to save a conventional defeat with nuclear weapons...
...Maintain our nuclear forces at such a level and deploy them in such a way that the Soviet Union could not safely undertake a first strike of its own. Do not drop the nuclear guarantee-made at the formation of NATO after World War II-that the U.S. would respond to a Soviet first strike on Western Europe with a nuclear second strike...
...this is a just distribution of resources in response to society's demands for certain skills. But does society really value more the Harvard graduate who does market consulting than the one who helps with food distribution? I would hope it does not. An enlightened government does not merely respond to the priorities spit out by the free market, but also dictates the principles to guide it. The low pay in public service sectors is a market failure, and the federal government needs to intervene directly...
Those who think issues should prevail in politics deplore any emphasis on personality. Yet personality and character matter, because they suggest how a President would respond in a crisis, or whether he would dare to do the unpopular. Nowadays conversations about candidates turn less on specific issues than on judgments of them as tough-minded, unfair, soft, impetuous, cautious, shrewd, stubborn, dangerous. When with trick or trap questions television interviewers try to test how a challenger would react under pressure, the questioners often end up appearing overbearing and rude. Far from being a diversion from a sensible discussion...