Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event that University members are responsible for the flyers, Epps said he would consider several ways to respond. He did not elaborate on what these alternatives would...
Your article on police brutality [NATION, Sept. 1] failed to mention one crucial, complicating fact of police work: the character of criminals. Because law-enforcement officers routinely deal with people who are brutal and do not respond to sweet persuasion, the police must use force. Sadly, the only logic many criminals understand is the big stick. Thus to handcuff the police is to liberate the thug. Of course, there is no excuse for the extreme brutalization of a Haitian immigrant at Brooklyn's 70th Precinct, but a citizen like me has far more chance of being viciously attacked...
...Mughal Gardens at the President's palace in New Delhi. "When we had covered about half the garden," recalls S.K. MATHUR, the chief horticulturalist, "she suddenly asked me, 'Do you talk to the plants?' I said, 'Of course.' She started laughing, and then she asked, 'Do they respond?' I told her that it had been scientifically proven that plants respond to tender human attention. I think she was glad to hear that. She was asking quite seriously because her husband had said on TV that he talked to his plants. She wanted to check...
Most cancers, while not curable, respond to treatment with surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Each of these procedures exacts a price in pain and suffering. Racism is the cancer on the American body politic. There are no sure cures, and treatments specifically calling for the inclusion of those long barred by reason of race can be painful...
Whether the disease does break out--and how widely it spreads--may depend less on how local governments respond than on the reaction of local citizenry. "The key is to protect yourself," says Tom Skinner of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "That requires wearing long clothing, using insect repellent and staying indoors in the hours right before and after sunset." Avoiding encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes may be no harder than avoiding their benign kin; the stakes, however, are decidedly higher...