Word: overreacted
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...bureau encouraged all individuals to immediately contact law enforcement authorities if they noticed any suspicious activities. However, President Bush urged Americans not to overreact to such warnings and to continue to go about their usual routines...
...about how we got here, but some perennial truths persist: every generation thinks the next one is too slack; every parent reinvents the job. Parenthood, like childhood, is a journey of discovery. You set off from your memories of being a kid, all the blessings, all the scars. You overreact, improvise and over time maybe learn what works; with luck you improve. It is characteristic of the baby boomers to imagine themselves the first to take this trip, to pack so many guidebooks to read along the way and to try to minimize any discomfort...
...There's a danger that China will overreact, as they did when President Lee Teng-hui visited. Also, there's a danger that the pro-reform factions in Beijing will be undermined if the U.S. appears to be cozying up to Taiwan despite President Jiang Zemin's policy of openness towards the West. The race is on right now to succeed Jiang, and the conservatives will use stronger U.S.-Taiwan ties against the reformists. Now that they have Hong Kong and Macau back, Taiwan has become more of an obsession for the Chinese...
...probably more than anyone, can beat ourselves," tri-captain Jen Vogt-Lowell said. "We have a tendency to overthink and overreact, so we want to not beat ourselves before anyone else has the chance...
...certainly true that when Lennon was shot he was immediately mythologized and canonized. Did we overreact to Lennon's death in 1980? Are we pining for a mythological cipher...