Word: overreaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Court reform is perhaps most urgently needed in the juvenile court system--the education of criminals begins very early. Juvenile courts now either overreact or underreact; the first mars children for life with prison terms, the second gives them a sense that there are no consequences for antisocial acts. The juvenile courts need more of a choice than jail or a slap on the wrists: some means of instilling a notion of just dessert in young criminals without resorting to homeopathic incarceration...
...pleased with his play," Restic said afterwards,"I think he's going to be a great linebacker. He's smart, has great quickness, and doesn't overreact...
...President then decided to explain the situation to the White House press corps because-according to a presidential aide-"he clearly felt that the newsmen needed a look at him. He wanted to show that he wasn't going to flinch and wasn't going to overreact...
...crude. They are the sort of people that Karl Marx would have contemptuously dismissed as senseless anarchists. Many California radicals follow the teachings of Mao, Che Guevara, French Revolutionary Regis Debray and Carlos Marighella, the Brazilian terrorist tactician. Marighella advocates violence as a way to encourage government authorities to overreact. He theorizes that a government will inevitably impose harshly repressive measures that will "radicalize" nonviolent citizens and thus bring on the revolution...
...impending contract negotiations are, nonetheless, Harvard's primary labor concern this fall. It's difficult to say whether strikes are a real possibility, but the thought doesn't faze Powers. "It's bad labor relations to overreact to strikes," Powers says, "In fact the worst thing to do is feign toughness and not be tough...