Word: respondents
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...neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show up to evict, cell members have been known to physically block the gendarmes. Naturally, beneficiaries are expected to respond at election time...
...annual cost to the nation of all litigation and related insurance is more than $80 billion. As Walter Olson, the author of The Litigation Explosion, argues, "A litigator can come around, dump a pile of papers on your front lawn and you can go literally broke trying to respond...
...years later, 75% of Hispanics deserted the black candidate, city alderman Timothy Evans, and cast their ballots for the winner, Richard M. Daley, son of the late Chicago boss. Explains alderman Luis Gutierrez: "Rich Daley sent a message -- 'I'll build a coalition with Hispanics, and my government will respond...
...scholars and politicians met at Harvard University to air their grievances. "We are seeing that it is time for society to pay attention to Hispanics' much delayed political maturation," says Christopher Edley, a black Harvard Law School professor. "The jury is still out on how the black community will respond: Will we welcome the growing strength of a longtime ally, or will we respond by feeling threatened or displaced...
...tacrine controversy underscores one of the most vexing of medical issues: should the regulatory process be eased for drugs aimed at deadly diseases that do not respond to any other treatment? Vigorous lobbying by AIDS activists has led the FDA to expedite release of two drugs that appear to alleviate symptoms of that fatal infection. Inspired by that example, families of Alzheimer's patients have been demanding similar treatment...