Word: overreacts
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...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...
...offer a sustained, considered judgment: "Without question, Nixon had the potential to be the greatest conservative political leader of his time; he knew his goals and he had the skills required to achieve them. Yet he had a fatal flaw too, an inability to tolerate criticism, an instinct to overreact in political combat. I don't know which came first, the liberals' loathing of Nixon or Nixon's loathing of the liberals, but the passions fed on one another, grew more and more bitter, until once he achieved the presidency, Nixon could not resist the urge...
Moreover, he did not overreact when Israeli troops violated the Oct. 22 cease-fire and surrounded the city of Port Suez. Sadat's restraint allowed Kissinger to make a convincing case to the Israelis that Egypt really wanted an agreement...