Word: respondents
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...could severely strain relations between the NATO powers and Russia, many of whose citizens empathize with the Serbs as fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians. If the ultimatum had to be voted on in the U.N. Security Council, Boris Yeltsin's government would almost certainly veto it, if only to respond to public anger fanned by nationalists like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was in full cry last week. NATO finessed that by insisting that its ultimatum is justified under previous Security Council resolutions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali, who has resisted previous attempts to take military action, will have to approve...
Take the Gazette ads. The first listing for the job ran on Friday, Jan. 21. The deadline for applications was the close of business on Wednesday, Jan. 26. In other words, prospective applicants had less than four working days to respond. McCarthy said the ad was supposed to run in the Gazette a week earlier, but didn't. "The Gazette screwed up," he explained...
...students say that the Yard superintendent's office has been slow to respond to their concerns...
Harvard waited too long to respond contemporary changes; no younger faculty of Bloom's age came remotely near the education and superb scholarship of Douglas Bush, Harry Levin and Walter Jackson Bate, Luminaries of Harvard's recent past. The English department nearly went into receivership. Ten years after I entered grad school, Harvard's reputation in literature hit rock bottom...
Howe's technique remains fairly constant in all of his works. He paints with acrylics, which he prefers because they respond well to re-working: "Watercolor is like a typewriter; acrylic is like a word-processor." He starts each piece with a gray underpainting on which he builds layers of brighter color--he doesn't use any pigments straight from the tube, preferring instead to mix subtle tones. His darkest shades are made up of reds, blues, and greens; he never uses black in a painting. Howe's brush strokes are, for the most part, controlled, although in some...