Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume that the Essay "Women Are Getting Out of Hand" [July 18] was written in jest. However, I must respond to your closing comment: "Clearly the future belongs to women." With the ERA not passed, with women being paid only 59? for every dollar that men earn, and with reproductive freedom still threatened, it is hardly assured that "the future belongs to women...
...there are those writers who refuse to be seduced. And when they speak out, readers respond by the thousands. Internationally prominent novelists like Kobo Abe (Woman in the Dunes) and Kenzaburo Oe regularly sell 150,000 copies of each book. Other novelists, like Hisashi Inoue, 47, have enjoyed even greater success (see box). Shusako Endo's spare and elegant studies of Christian faith and martyrdom (Silence; The Samurai) have brought the 60-year-old author the title of the Japanese Graham Greene and made him one of the nation's most widely translated writers...
...learned of the event by talking with the police yesterday, but police official manning the desk headquarters could not confirm this not could they explain the absence of a police report from the public log, which is supposed to record all calls and incidents to which the police respond...
...also pointedly offered a prayer "for those who wield authority on Polish soil." But he seemed determined to buttress the church's role as the sole mediator between the state and the Polish people. In a special meeting of the Polish episcopate, he urged the church hierarchy to "respond to the need to hear the truth, which is so acute in society." John Paul provided plenty of examples on the remaining stops of a tour that, according to some estimates, brought him in contact with almost a third of Poland's 36 million people...
...Hospital in San Antonio, which will open next summer, children visiting their newborn brothers and sisters will be entertained in a special "sibling room" equipped with games. Patients at Eastwood Hospital in Memphis, a Healthcare International facility, get a $10 refund if the floor nurse fails to respond to a call signal within one minute...