Word: retort
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...Meeting that demand would be costly to the companies: it could cause production delays, force the hiring of many more workers, or both. Malcolm Denise, Ford's chief negotiator, warns that if the U.A.W. is serious, it "could be on a collision course" with management. Woodcock's retort...
...sweep of the subpoenas brought a sharp retort from news executives. New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said: "The Times will take all legal steps to have the subpoena quashed." Officials of TIME declared that such a sweeping subpoena is "an invasion" of Fischer's rights under the First Amendment. They explained that "While Time Inc.'s policy does not demand resistance to every subpoena of a newsman, the crucial factor here is that there has been no showing whatsoever that the documents and information demanded of Mr. Fischer are necessary to the resolution of the case...
That a substantial number of his listeners can be depended upon to ignore the message is seen in the ease with which Osborne can provoke them to anger and unabashed public retort. Some nights it is hard to distinguish between the paid actors planted in the audience and the victims-the paying customers. In that respect, Osborne's title can be read as a subtle irony...
...Democrats' retort to Shultz is likely to be that a vote against extra spending is a vote for continued unemployment, which is now running at a 5.5% rate and is not expected to sink below 5% until at least next year. With the economy still far from being fully employed, many Democrats argue, there is little inflationary risk in chalking up higher deficit spending-but a good deal of job-creating gain...
...because nowhere did totality last longer than 2 min. 35.6 sec. Moreover, scientists are divided as to the value of studying eclipses. The Young Turks in the field say condescendingly that it's an old man's game, an occasion for repeating familiar experiments. The old hands retort that there is still much that can best be learned during eclipses. Even if they are repeating experiments, they are doing so with progressively more sophisticated instruments and getting more detailed results...