Word: overreacts
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...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...
...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...