Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these things if only I can get the silly computer to respond to my commands. As this scene unfolds within the two tiny color video screens strapped to my eyes, I'm jabbing at the air with the electronic glove that is supposed to be my steering wheel. But like the dreamer in a nightmare who tries to leap out of the way of a speeding locomotive and finds his legs won't work, I'm pointing my finger and bending my thumb every which way with no visible result. Feeling more and more foolish in my futuristic headgear...
Given the emotional and economic toll, an increasing number of couples are simply choosing not to transfer. Confronted with the mounting resistance, companies are beginning to respond. Fully 75% of the 1,000 companies that belong to the Washington-based Employee Relocation Council offer services designed to make relocation more attractive to spouses, from writing basic resumes to pooling job listings with other companies to expedite a spouse's employment search...
...welcome surprise when a majority of Arab states voted late last week to commit troops to a pan-Arab force and to honor the worldwide U.N. economic embargo against Iraq. At an emergency session of the Arab League in Cairo, 12 of the 20 delegations agreed "to respond to the request by Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to deploy Arab forces to support the armed forces there." Significantly, their numbers included Egypt and Syria, which have two of the Middle East's largest armies. Algeria and Yemen abstained, while Jordan, Sudan and Mauritania expressed reservations and did not even...
...after Saddam moved into Kuwait, Egypt joined the Arab League's belated condemnation of the invasion. But Mubarak, who had just cause for outrage since Saddam had assured him only a week earlier that Iraq had no such intention, did not respond forcefully until after the U.S. pressed Egypt to join a multinational force. "I'm not going to help foreign troops," he declared, "but I will help Arab troops." Even as he called for the emergency Arab summit, however, he authorized U.S. aircraft to fly over Egypt and cleared the way for the U.S.S. Eisenhower to pass through...
...with Buthelezi's Inkatha movement -- and complained that key elements of the police force may simply be outside the President's control. Buthelezi again called for a face-to-face meeting with Mandela, a development that many believe would cool off the tensions in Natal. A.N.C. officials refused to respond publicly but said privately that peace talks with the Zulu chief were "not in the cards...