Word: responded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Public officials are too busy to lead in the development of new ideas, she said, adding that intellectuals have failed to respond to the need to pull the public out of the "narcissism...
...There is no escaping the conclusion that intellectuals must be the initial innovators in society," Harris said. She explained that the government's role is only to respond to--not create--these ideas...
...proceed with a policy that does not make clear to the corporations that there are potential consequences to follow upon their failure to respond to earlier demands or positions taken by the University, if, in other words, at the end of our chain of articulated steps, there exists no exit, only a kind of crying in the wind, then we fail in the end, either to communicate our moral stance or to exercise what little power in the most efficacious way that we have in this situation...
Other Hong Kong leaders respond that the colony's enterprises are much more efficient, innovative and market-oriented than those of the Chinese. A leading Hong Kong businessman, having returned from a tour of mainland factories, estimates that a Chinese factory as a whole is only one-seventh as efficient as one in Hong Kong. The general bullishness is summed up by Sir Lawrence Kadoorie, 79, a Hong Kong-born multimillionaire, who is negotiating to buy large amounts of Chinese coal for a new Hong Kong generating station that will supply electricity to neighboring Guangdong (Kwangtung) province...
...journalists and their employers respond to their increasing power and prestige? Halberstam's book will disappoint those expecting to hear the worst. The Post, for instance, was handed down from Eugene Meyer to his brilliant son-in-law Philip Graham. Eventually Graham used Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority...