Word: responds
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...years ago when Baghdad refused to comply with the arms inspection regime, and then simply stopped its attacks after four days. By clinging to a collapsing sanctions regime, the Clinton administration has failed to maintain the strategic initiative on Iraq, leaving Washington in a position of having to respond to others' initiatives...
That Collins has in large measure succeeded ranks as no small accomplishment, given the unwieldy nature of the international consortium with which he has had to deal since 1993. In order to respond to Venter's challenge, for example, Collins and his allies had to persuade scientists from six countries and multiple government agencies and university-based laboratories to cooperate rather than compete. The result of those efforts--a first draft of the book of man--was to appear with Venter's work in the journal Science until it was pulled and sent to Nature in a last-minute dispute...
...from unauthorized dissemination, but also outlining procedures for verbal exchanges between doctors, insurance companies and other medical staff. Privacy advocates hail the bill as "a major victory for consumers," as the Health Privacy Project's Janlori Goldman told the New York Times. "The administration went to great lengths to respond to consumers' concerns about the proposed rules...
...probably try to see the general sometime in January. But there's also the issue of medical checks, which Chilean law requires when someone over 70 is prosecuted. Pinochet is 85, and they are legally bound to check whether he's insane, and whether he can respond to questions. It's a little confusing, because there are so many different cases against Pinochet, and it's not clear whether this issue of medical checks will delay things...
...adds, "Indeed, the impression I get from colleagues elsewhere is that committees with students tend act in a more black-or-white way--more reluctant to sustain a charge at all, and then more inclined to respond harshly...