Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense the coalition is an inherent contradiction for these groups. Special interests abandon conventional party politics when they feel the political consensus does not respond to their needs. Interests become movements because compromise isn't enough: their proponents want to elbow their issues onto the national agenda. Taking the cue from civil rights, they establish their own organizations, constituencies and power bases...
...widespread outrage at the Soviets' behavior presented the Reagan Administration with a delicate diplomatic problem: how to respond with appropriate indignation without imposing sanctions that would backfire. Counseled by Secretary of State George Shultz, who coolly and competently took charge, Reagan laid down the line even before he returned to Washington on Sept. 2 from a vacation at his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif. Said the President to National Security Adviser William Clark: "We have to guard against overreaction." Though Clark had been emerging as a hard-line architect of American foreign policy, he acted only as the "honest broker...
...people more than against them. They've proven that grain is accessible to them any place else. So there were things of that kind which we considered very seriously but ruled out. There were a number of other things that show your displeasure, but they could respond with retaliation of the same kind...
Part of the appeal of the computer networks is voyeuristic: like party lines in the early days of telephones, they permit strangers to listen in on personal conversations. Although some may find the fishbowl atmosphere intimidating, others, like Sir Weej, are exhilarated to discover an audience that will respond to their thoughts. "I sense fertile ground here," he says. "I have not felt so connected and vital in a long time...
...will probably respond in a positive direction to having the new board, but with powers short of what president Bok wanted," he said...