Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfecting of techniques that enable politicians and corporations to capitalize on discontents without threatening the status quo. Unlike the world's oppressed, Americans have many ways of expressing their frustrations through votes, opinion surveys and boycotts, as well as demonstrations. Legislators and companies have fine-tuned their ability to respond to expressions of public anxiety with promises of legislative and private initiatives, reassuring people that problems are being addressed, if not solved. When things don't change for the better, people take to the streets again, and the cycle repeats itself, as it has with Earth...
...that unless his demands for $100 million in jobs programs and city council representation to give blacks more clout in city government are met by 1995, his militia will "cripple" the city and "extract a measure of justice." He even jokes about taking hostages if the city does not respond to his satisfaction...
...week's end an organization of top religious leaders announced that it supported McGee's demands for a greater infusion of resources into the black community. While they condemned violence, the church leaders said, "There is also a danger that in our efforts to respond to each other's rhetoric, we will ignore the violence that already exists in our community." If the clergymen's intervention can produce a compromise, all of Milwaukee can say amen...
...skill that could conceivably be used someday to build atom-size transistors or to custom-design molecules. Using an instrument called a scanning tunneling microscope and working on a surface chilled to near absolute zero, researchers Donald Eigler and Erhard Schweizer were able to get individual atoms to respond to the magnet-like tug of a fine tungsten needle. But don't expect to see atom-etching booths at your local science fair. It took 22 hours to haul 35 xenon atoms across the bumpy nickel surface. And when the temperature rose above -380 degrees F, the masterpiece flew apart...
...produce. Buying your name from Citizens for Massive Federal Subsidies to Decadent Art (which you joined last year) might cost Americans for Flag Burning another 6 cents, and mailing the package at bulk rate will be about a dime. Total: 26 cents. But if one person out of 100 responds to the package, that's considered an adequate return. So it's cost them $26 to extract your $25. Unless you send more, they're out a buck. Of course, the money spent finding you is lost whether you respond or not. But that's just the beginning. After waiting...