Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Constitution, for example, now bans front-page stories that jump to another page, which means major news events must be covered in a paltry 150 words or so. Many papers have shifted to civic, or public, journalism, an increasingly popular but controversial editorial policy in which newspapers attempt to respond more closely to the needs and interests of the communities they cover, using focus groups and reader polls. "To the extent that public journalism weans reporters from political insiders and forces them to talk to ordinary people, it's an incredibly healthy development," says Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz...
...artificial pleasantness that pervades the debates is an attempt to respond to the American public's distaste for the partisan bickering that is so common in Washington. Also, both presidential candidates are concerned with overcoming the negative facets of their images. Bob Dole is trying to shed his reputation as a grouchy old hatchet man, and Bill Clinton is still seeking to appear statesmanlike and presidential, above the scandals of Paula Jones, Whitewater and Filegate...
...with the good news comes the bad. The new drugs, it turns out, don't work for everyone. "At least 15% of patients don't respond," says Dr. Howard Grossman, whose New York City practice is largely devoted to treating AIDS. "That's the saddest thing. They watch other people get better. They have high hopes, and then nothing happens...
...septic with what clearly seems to be his own unappeasable fury. He ends Smith's story by prophesying that murderous vengeance will not die; the killings will continue. But the world is so oversupplied with justified hatred, righteously inflaming every continent and tribe, that it is hard to respond to Indian Killer with anything more openhearted than, 'Right. Understood. Take a number. Get in line.'" ?By John Skow
...selling its bongs to pot smokers, it is able to skirt drug paraphernalia laws by maintaining that the glass tubes are tobacco delivery systems. Caught in a vice between the pressures of the market and those of the law, Graffix faces some very sticky questions: How should it respond to the fact that it helps customers get high? Should it push for legalization? Might political activism provoke a backlash that drives it out of business...