Word: reacted
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Like Pavlov's dog, people learn to react to cables, and too often their reflexes are conditioned so that they react to little else. In obscure acronyms, the cables announce that GOI (the Government of India, or Ireland, or Italy, depending on the date line somewhere in the hieroglyphics at the top of the page) has just taken the following action, or that GOT (the Government of Tanzania, or Turkey, or Transylvania) is about to take the following action, unless USG (backwards for the Government of the United States) does something about it. Sooner or later, the faithful cable reader...
...matter how the foreign students react to an emancipated NSA itself, they have shown their fear of the CIA before. In Berlin, for example, students recently called on the mayor to halt CIA activities at the Free University. Recruitment of German students by the CIA was described in the New York Times on Monday. The CIA appears to have confined itself to individuals and there is no evidence that it funneled large-scale grants to student organizations...
...economy, like any other mammoth organism, can continue to flourish only as long as its intelligence can direct its vast bulk and react to an ever-changing environment. The guidance system faltered in election year 1966, causing that rare paradox, inflation at a time of some business slow- down. Some of the problems have changed, but they remain serious enough in 1967 to pose the question: Can the nation sustain a seventh consecutive year of expanding prosperity? In his Economic Report and Budget Message to Congress last week, President Johnson answered with a qualified yes. He said the U.S. could...
...these products of combustion were not unpleasant or dangerous enough by themselves, some also undergo complicated chemical changes in the atmosphere that make them even less attractive. In the presence of sunlight, the hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides emitted largely by automobile exhausts react to produce the sort of brownish and irritating photochemical smog that blankets Los Angeles for most of the year. "Los Angeles smog" is a highly complex soup containing, among other things, nitrogen dioxide, hydrocarbons, ozone (a highly active and poisonous form of oxygen) and peroxyacyl nitrate (commonly called PAN). "London smog," on the other hand, usually contains...
Presdent Johnson has already received a copy of the letter with 22 signatures affixed. It was sent to the White House in late August, "as a courtesy measure." No one knows how he will react to a message with 5000 learned signatures...