Word: responders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incident, there?s plenty of argument over whether the "Don?t ask, don?t tell" policy has made the situation better of worse. Discharges due to sexual orientation have risen every year since its implementation, from a low of 617 in 1994 to 1,145 last year. Pentagon officials respond that the increase is due instead to voluntary declarations of homosexuality by men and women who simply wanted to get out of the military, and claim that investigative abuses in the ranks are relatively rare. They might consider adding a third provision to the policy: "Don?t find...
...Telephone surveys in matters of sexuality and matters of race are uniformly skewed," Blum said. "People respond to a race question much differently over the telephone than they do in private...
...Telephone surveys in matters of sexuality and matters of race are uniformly skewed," Blum said. "People respond to a race question much differently over the telephone than they do in private...
...original Senate plan ?- not a lot to begin with -- but only 21 percent of the cuts in the final bill. The top 20 percent are slated for the remaining 79 percent. Republicans don?t disagree ?- they?ve got plenty of voters making more than $82,000 a year -? but respond that these are the folks that pay most of the taxes in the first place. "Rich people do pay more taxes," says Branegan. "But pointing that out may not help them with voters." Well, the election?s still a ways away. And an argument like that will sure help them...
...meeting Tuesday aimed at restarting the peace process, and the outcome was anything but positive. "The atmosphere in the meeting was tense and the gulf between the two sides? positions remains deep and wide," says TIME West Bank correspondent Jamil Hamad. Despite Arafat?s reluctant agreement to respond in two weeks to Barak?s proposal to delay land transfers required by the Wye accord, the Palestinian leader insisted Wednesday that his answer was no and that full implementation of Wye was essential to restart the process...