Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...14th century gothic town hall last week, but the real storm was within. Lech Walesa, 38, faced one of the toughest challenges to his leadership of Solidarity, Poland's independent trade union federation. The occasion: a meeting of Solidarity's 107-member national commission. The task: to react to Walesa's announcement that he would join in an unprecedented tripartite summit meeting with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp. The meeting would consider the country's explosive political and economic plight...
...LEAST AS Secretary of State Alexander Haig reads it, NATO policy in the event of a Soviet conventional attack on Western Europe might go something like this: Soviet tanks begin to roll across the continent, overrunning weaker NATO conventional forces. The allies, unsure how else to react, turn quickly to the nuclear arsenal. From it they select a single bomb and explode it somewhere in the sky over Europe, demonstrating our readiness to fight a nuclear...
Martin echoed this concern. "We don't think science should be above it all, but the cuts should be made wisely, and not so precipitously. They should be made in a time-scale small enough that people can react to them" he said...
...policies often change, sometimes radically. But so do circumstances. I like to think of myself as one of those people who adapt themselves to changing circumstances, who react to the changes, and who sometimes help to create them...
...greeted the official explanation. It is true that there were no sure signs of parallel attacks anywhere else, or any coordinated efforts to take over the country, as presumably would have been the case in a wider conspiracy. But some questions remained. Sadat's security men seemed slow to react, though the spectacular nature of the attack might well have stunned them. More important, the professional nature of the assault suggested the possibility of thorough training and a larger operation. Somehow the assassins evaded the security check prior to the parade. They were able to sneak live ammunition and grenades...