Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Calvert wanted to go into military intelligence, but she realized that in the army she wouldn't have control of her future. "You may get what you want to do or you may have to respond to higher orders," she says. "To follow my career goals, I knew I'd have to go elsewhere...
...stubbornly opposed to any real progress in the Geneva talks on limiting intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe. By contrast, Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov grandly revealed that he was willing to make generous-sounding "concessions." There were bitter divisions in the Reagan Administration over how to respond. The confusion was compounded last week when the President fired his arms control chief, Eugene Rostow, 69, and replaced him with Kenneth Adelman, 36, an arms control neophyte with pronounced conservative views...
...wrong time. Rostow, perhaps too publicly for his own good, had argued for a more flexible U.S. approach to the arms talks. His sacking was seen in European capitals as evidence that Reagan either was not serious about arms reduction or, almost as worrisome, had no idea how to respond to the Kremlin peace offensive. "The Administration has played right into Andropov's hands," said a French foreign affairs specialist. Indeed, the Soviets were quick to capitalize on their propaganda windfall. Rostow's dismissal, reported TASS, the official Soviet news agency, "can be viewed abroad as another evidence...
...employee," Walesa told an official, "so I came to work." But shipyard personnel stopped the former electrician at an office just inside the gate and told him he could not be reinstated until he obtained a letter certifying that he was not employed elsewhere. They also asked him to respond to government accusations of irregularities in Solidarity's finances. As police moved into the side streets around the shipyard, Walesa went home to ponder his next move. Said he: "Work is necessary for my health. When I worked, I was vigorous. Now I am tired...
...America's growing army of the unemployed popped up again last week. Noting that businesses still outnumber jobless workers,* the President suggested that every firm try to hire just one more person. At his first 1983 news conference, however, Reagan conceded that employers are not yet rushing to respond...