Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...respond at all prior to March 30. I blame her and I don't blame her. After March 30, I finally got a response out of her. It's now six months later, and she's playing it cool again. I can't take much more of this silent treatment...
...throughout Europe and especially in Holland are secretly Soviet-supported and financed. America has, rightly or wrongly, singled out Holland as the leader of this apparent 'revolt', but she is a leader without support. Important loans and industrial contracts have been held up and the Dutch are powerless to respond. As with the Chinese fiasco, the Dutch, because of diplomatic shortsightedness, have been placed in a damaging predicament now beyond their control...
...September 1970 there was a debate in the army over whether to respond to the Syrian invasion of Jordan. I was part of a minority who said that for the first time, there was an opportunity to start solving the Palestinian problem. The solution was to let the Hashemite Kingdom disappear...
...metal's allure stems from a wishful notion that financial stability can be achieved in a "fixed mechanical way," rather than by "trusting human beings." The danger, says he, is that the gold standard would put policymakers into such a "straitjacket" that they would be unable to respond to changing economic conditions. The result: even greater instability and more frequent bouts of high unemployment. Joseph Pechman, director of economic studies at the Brookings Institution, agrees: "I think the whole idea is nonsense. The gold bugs are recommending a disastrous route for economic policy...
...adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production of A Midsummer Night's Dream?each performer was asked to research an aspect of life in Victorian England...