Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...girls stood by looking on with bewilderment and disgust. And if we had no idea how to talk to each other in the hallway, you can only imagine what classroom discussions were like. It took a good year or so before the boys and girls began to act "normal...
...would hope that they would take the opinions of the signers of the petition and the opinions of those pressing them for this policy seriously and act on it positively," he said...
Though it seems as though so many have accepted the idea that what we see, hear and experience in the media is an integral part of how we act, rarely are particular musicians touted as anything but a negative impact on society at large. Thus Marilyn Manson is responsible for asocial behavior, NWA is to blame for violence against the police, and a host of pop musicians are the propagators of heroin chic. Few musical movements "represent" anything, for the sheer volume of commercial production in any one genre tends to render the offhand or nonchalant stereotype misinformed or misplaced...
...China's Belgrade embassy that killed four people and wounded 26. The error -- which NATO officials said resulted from an intelligence failure in which the building was wrongly identified as a Yugoslav arms procurement office -- may further cloud the troubled relationship between Washington and Beijing. China denounced the act as "barbaric," demanded that NATO immediately halt its bombing campaign. Russia backed that call, insisting that the peace plan agreed with NATO leaders Thursday could not be implemented before the air campaign was halted...
...catch attention. The work of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, the study revealed that removing or inactivating a gene called DAM in a certain strain of salmonella disabled the bacteria?s ability to cause disease in mice. The altered bacteria also went on to act like a vaccine, apparently activating the mouse?s immune system to make antibodies. The group?s research, says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, underscores "a new push to see whether there is a design way around the bacteria problem...