Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confront if it promotes more terrorism. The U.S. contends that Gaddafi was at least partly responsible for the Christmas-week massacres at the Rome and Vienna airports. Beyond that, senior U.S. officials seemed eager to provoke Gaddafi into a military response. Said one Pentagon official: "If they don't react, we've exposed them as a paper tiger...
...motives of the FDO are unclear. They said they did what they felt was right. But it bothers me very much that an office full of people whose job it is to look after freshmen and understand them--should react as they did in this case. They acknowledged that they knew a lot about Sam. They knew that Sam's father died in an auto accident a year ago, and that Sam was extremely upset by this. They knew he couldn't tell his mother about his troubles because it would break her heart. They knew that...
...swept away from the sun by the pressure of solar radiation. Sunlight reflecting off the tail produces the fiery effect. The second, bluish appendage is called the plasma or ion tail. It is formed when gases from the comet's nucleus become charged by solar radiation and then react with the solar wind, which is a constant stream of charged particles that emanate from the sun and carry its magnetic field. While the plasma tail does not reflect sunlight, it is visible because of the light emitted by some of its gases...
Sponsored by Harvard's International Relations Council, the conference aims to teach students how to reconcile different opinions, said Jonathan M. Levine '86 of Leverett House, the conference's secretary general. Levine also said the conference tries to teach students not only how countries react but also how to apply this knowledge to their own lives...
...scores of movies in which America's war against Fascism was presented as a struggle between good and evil. The loss of German and Japanese life in them is in many cases greater than the loss of Russian and Vietnamese life in Rambo. Yet I've never heard anyone react with moral indignation against these simplistic portrayals of what was the most humanly costly war ever known to man. Even rarer is the person who would view them as dangerous...