Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After intense consultations, the NATO countries have reached a consensus about how they could jointly respond to a Soviet invasion. Military action seems out of the question, but a succession of countermoves could go into effect immediately: withdrawal of ambassadors from Moscow; a drastic restriction of trade, high-technology sales and credits to the Soviets and other East bloc countries; a cutoff of economic aid to Poland; and an indefinite postponement of arms talks...
...requested that it have the authority to demand $3.50 of the surcharge added to women's term bills if the Student Council did not respond to women's needs...
...single track, Poland's government and independent labor movement had seemed headed for certain collision. Solidarity, the 10 million-member union federation, was threatening to launch a general strike that would halt every loom, lathe and furnace in the country. Warsaw's Communist leaders were ready to respond with a declared state of emergency and possibly an armed crackdown, a move that could provoke a violent civil conflict. But both sides in Poland's labor-government showdown hit the brakes at the last moment and averted a smashup by inches...
...interview following his speech, Nader said that while he sees part of the responsibility for these reforms as falling on institutions like the Medical School, the initial actions must came from individuals, and that "institutions will only respond when pressured...
Crimson: Are you at all constrained by your position as president of Harvard when you respond to the kind of ethical and policy questions that we have been discussing...