Word: overreaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pines struck back, questioning the chief's professionalism in making charges without evidence. Last week Davis zeroed in on bigger game. Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss revealed that one reason the party chose New York over L.A. for its 1976 National Convention was fear that the chief would overreact to demonstrations, Davis reacted by resigning from the party...
...Wilson, like other literary revisionists, overreact? Philip Mason thinks so. A veteran of 20 years in the Indian civil service, Mason is neither a first-rate biographer nor a first-rate critic. Still, stolidly and finally convincingly, he builds a case for a Kipling who stands between the old clichés and Wilson's anti-clichés-a Kipling rather magnificent in his contradictions...
...rebates of up to $1,000." Weidenbaum also recommends that the Government speed the flow of federal contracts: "Order today what is supposed to be ordered next month." Like Bunting, he is afraid that if Congress waits too long, unemployment will go so high that Congress will later overreact and overstimulate the economy-and kick off more inflation...
...Harvard, Dean Rosovsky delivered a letter to the faculty urging instructors "not to overreact" but to continue to write letters of recommendation for students, which he called "an obligation" of teachers...
...policy to curb rampant inflation; he also supports the slight loosening on the growth of the monetary supply that the board has permitted during the past few weeks. "The long-run view is for some weakening of demand that would require easing of monetary policy, but we should not overreact and move too fast...