Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...received your communication of 28 March and decided to respond before the public forum you announced for "later in the spring." My preliminary findings indicate that you were right in saying "this questionnaire will take some time." I spent an hour-and-a-half responding to your questions. That's alot of time out of a busy day in the life of a Harvard sophomore...
...inflationary perils of free- floating prices, Guangdong's 63 million people are barely concerned. After all, their economy grew 18% in 1987. This year the growth rate is a more sedate but still impressive 11%. Guangdong's producers and consumers have learned that when prices are allowed to respond to supply and demand, they may initially shoot up but begin to decline as new production reaches the marketplace...
Walters' troubles with the University began in 1981, when she formally charged that Harvard and her two supervisors failed to respond to her complaints that a co-worker was harassing her. Walters claimed that when she was promoted to acting crew chief that year the occasional taunts at work became menacing and sometimes violent threats. She says another Facilities Maintenance worker, James Tegan, threw a lit firecracker at her--and was not adequately disciplined by her immediate supervisors. At first Tegan was suspended for a day, but later he was reinstated, and paid for the missed wages...
Georgene B. Herschbach '62, director of Harvard's Office of Special Programs and a member of the committee drafting the survey, said she hoped three-quarters of the students would respond...
...article with these characteristics may merit swift and thorough rebuttal, but a university committed to freedom of expression cannot respond with censorship. The First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech which challenges prevailing beliefs, provokes controversy, and presents ideas which others passionately hate. To be meaningful, freedom of speech must protect dissent, even when those in power perceive it as irresponsible or unreasonable. Mr. Larew rightly calls attention to the racial inequality still imbedded in our society, but his prescription of thought control must be rejected as dangerous and counterproductive. Alan D. Viard, GSAS