Word: overreaction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said a broker whose clients were jamming his telephones in their haste to sell. "More dramatic than anything I've seen since the assassination of President Kennedy. The institutions and banks are selling, but they aren't as dramatic as the public. The public always seems to overreact. They're just calling up and saying, 'Sell my stuff! Get out of my position!'" His experience was not unique. At brokerage houses around the city, investors were trying to cut their losses. By 11:30, only 1½ hrs. after trading began, the Dow Jones average...
...very angry, and I am cold and numb," said Ulster Paratroop Commander Colonel Jim Burke, "but we will not overreact because we pride ourselves in being professionals in every respect." Prime Minister Thatcher also recognized that the violence could trigger an eruption of much wider sectarian strife and avoided any display of emotionalism. In a bold, compassionate gesture, she flew to Belfast, where she strolled through the city's main shopping street to hear firsthand reactions to the killings...
...good intelligence for our country, and yet ensure against abuse? On the one hand, we can underreact and simply assume that the relatively limited number of abuses in the past will not be repeated because we are more conscious of the problem today. On the other hand, we can overreact and so attempt to control potential abuses that we handcuff and handicap our intelligence effort out of business...
Speaking about last week's mass suicide by members of the People's Temple, Carter said that the nation should not overreact by trying "to inject government into religion...
...Select Senate Committee nor any other investigative body has ever ascertained why the FBI placed King's SCLC in its list of black nationalist hate groups. The Senate Committee's report concluded that King's attacks of Hoover in the national press in part caused the director to overreact to King's presence on the national political scene...