Word: overreaction
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...Chicago, police relations with the ghetto are extremely tense. Patrol cars roam slum streets with shotgun muzzles visible. As hostility to them rises, police become more prone to overreact, as they did in the Detroit incident, when they invaded the crowded Detroit church, guns blazing, in search of the snipers...
...reservoir of world sympathy for an outnumbered nation surrounded by implacably hostile neighbors. After the Beirut attack, however, Israel found itself largely isolated diplomatically. The raid, which fueled the latest round of violence, struck even Israel's friends as an unhappy example of a propensity to overreact, demanding not a tooth for a tooth but a whole mouthful of teeth for every one lost by Israel...
...attack did happen, many substantial questions remain unanswered. The Administration, argues Fulbright, "didn't have a clear call to war" and acted precipitately and with inadequate evidence in sending American planes to bomb North Viet Nam. Last week's testimony strongly suggests that the Administration did indeed overreact to the Tonkin incident as such. But it treated that incident as part of the larger scene, evidently using it as a welcome excuse for launching bombers over North Viet Nam. Whatever the strategic merits of attacking the North at the time-and many in the U.S. military thought them...
...doesn't like. It prefers higher taxes to tighter money, because the latter tends to draw funds out of stocks into higher-yielding, fixed-income investments-which is what happened late in 1966. When President Johnson-whose every major pronouncement causes the market to react, and often to overreact-called for a surtax early in 1967, he helped the market to spurt. Professionals figured that if taxes rose as an anti-inflationary measure, the Federal Reserve's Chairman Martin could loosen up a bit on money and interest rates. But the market went down whenever opposition...
...they have already "discounted" the news-meaning that they anticipated it and "sold on the news." An investor might also think that market averages will fall when other small investors sell more stock than they buy. In fact, markets often go up because professionals figure that small "odd-lotters" overreact and are generally wrong...