flexible response

Flexible response is not only a myth, but a dangerous one.

The new program approach is expected to allow flexible responses to changing circumstances.

That is obviously a very complex situation but, nevertheless, one which requires a flexible response.

This kind of structure may allow more flexible responses to environmental change, and so speed up evolution.

Flexible response required the continuous presence of substantial conventional forces.

We need an imaginative and flexible response in a situation where there are few automatic markets left for British produce.

I also argued for a new Community initiative designed to provide a flexible response to unexpected serious economic crises.

Rigid planning means that unforeseen opportunities are lost and flexible response is built out of the system.

The short-range nuclear weapons were "absolutely vital to a flexible response," she said.

"Maybe if you'd backed down before the first shots were fired last week, you could have allowed yourself a more flexible response.

These rigidities do not allow flexible responses to present time exigencies.

Flexible response made second strike capability its guiding principle of deterrence.

Develop range of coping skills to assist flexible responses.

"It's the short-range nuclear weapon that gives us support for our flexible response strategy, which has kept the peace all these years."

His droll smile returns as he elicits what seems to be a more flexible response from a different manager.

Instead of relying on "forward defense," it has moved toward "flexible response" involving smaller forces and fewer exercises.

Flexible response, he insisted, "will be maintained, whether we accept the Soviet short-range offer or not."

"That allows for a quicker and perhaps more flexible response to an application for a loan," he said.

They also pledged to reduce the reliance on nuclear weapons now enshrined in strategy of "flexible response."

It was General Taylor's view, which he expressed with increasing frustration, that the nation's military policy should be based on "flexible response."

From 1967 however, under 'flexible response,' the aim became to build up conventional forces so that, if possible, nuclear weapons might not be needed.

Finally, public organisations urgently need to enhance their capacity for social learning, creativity and flexible response.

If nothing else flexible response as adopted in December 1967 had caused the planners to concentrate on actual rather than target forces.

By tying goals to economic activity, the president's policy encourages a flexible response but does not take economic risks.

If you could possibly manage a flexible response in order not to escalate the difficulties.'