Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOME SCENES are too simplistic even for a Bond film. World diplomats react to Largo's threat of nuclear holocaust like actors in a fourth-grade play, stiffly delivering throwaway lines like "This is the ultimate nightmare" and "I hope the American government realizes its large, large responsibility." And the producers are just a bit too casual in casting Bernie Casey as Bond's CIA buddy. Since Never's production company is not the usual Albert Broccoli crew, having different actors play the same roles is to be expected--in fact, Broccoli wouldn't let this movie...
...perspective. "The Westmoreland meeting got us thinking. In the end, we decided to develop a series encompassing all points of view," one producer recalls. Organizing the ambitious project came with risks as the producers began researching and structuring a vast and complicated subject without knowing how the public would react. Even though most corporations refused to fund the controversial topic, with help from ABC (which also provided all their archive material from news reels plus outtakes--royalty free), various foundations, the National Endowment for the Humanities and of course the Chubb Group, WGBH embarked on supervising the project...
Graham added that the Ed School received another grant this fall from the federal government to research how students react to computers in the classroom...
...Goddard talked of some day reaching the moon with a new breed of multistage rockets powered by liquid fuel, an editorial in the New York Times noted sarcastically that Goddard didn't know that a rocket had "to have something better than a vacuum against which to react...
...strike a balance between immediate and farsighted service. That means members (volunteer or otherwise) must communicate frequently with the students they represent. A Crimson poll last spring found that only one-third of undergraduates had ever discussed council matters or college policy with their representatives. The council can only react to student grievances through frequent communication, which can identify complaints from repeated fire alarms to erratic shuttle bus service. Another way for the council to affect both current and future student life is to dispense with procedural concerns, which last year consumed a sizable chunk of meetings and produced...