Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't often hear gripes about the way a person's sex chromosomes happened to link up. There are tomboys and effeminate men, but most work with what they have. Richard Raskind worked against what he had for many of his 42 years, trying to figure out how to react to the nagging feeling that he wanted to be--ought to be--a woman...
...reporter's measured conclusions. Indeed, some critics claim that Donaldson is scarcely a reporter. He makes little effort to compete with print journalists in developing sources and background knowledge, or uncovering major news. As he sees it, his job is to get people, especially the President, to react on the record, on camera. Says he: "My specialty is asking a pointed question to draw the newsworthy response that everyone else uses...
...stayed in my head. He had been young, probably no more than 20. Now he was dead, his two decades of life gone with the pull of a trigger, his entire existence made meaningless save for the statisticians. I wondered how his parents, if they were still alive, would react. I cried. Then I got angry...
...pretty crazy out there," said one UMass police dispatcher, citing the newspapers thrown from the upper stories of one of the 20-floor buildings. "People go crazy," she added, noting that students often react this way to UMass's "periodic" blackouts. "But then they calm down," she said. --The Daily Collegian
Though sympathetic to the business viewpoint, the Commerce Department's Olmer contends that too many businessmen react to the issue with "hyperbole in the extreme." He contends that it should not be too difficult to "both control trade and protect trade." Indeed, he points out, the stakes could be high. "I can remember some people claiming that rock-bit drilling technology was of no conceivable military use to the Soviets," he says. "Yet we now know that technology has been used by the Russians to develop armor-piercing shells. I sure wouldn't want...