Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confrontation shortly thereafter between Black and White Dorchester gangs in which a white man, Gerald White, was fatally shot, is not the aim of the Covenant, Mauzy said. "If I were a member of the Covenant [committee] I think I might stay away from those." To react to specific incidents of racial violence, he said, "is troubleshooting rather than working on the level the Covenant wants to work...
Econometric models are a combination of economics, mathematics and statistics. Model builders usually set up several hundred mathematical equations that represent the variables in any economy. After these are fed into a computer, the model can provide a picture of how the economy might react to a change in one or more important factors. Economists can predict, for example, how a severe drought in the Middle West might affect not only food prices but also consumer purchases of everything else...
...test anxiety scale for children developed by Yale researchers found that test anxiety scores were higher among low academic achievers than among the high achievers and that test anxious children typically react with strong unconscious hostility against others who they think are passing judgement on their adequacy as persons. This feeling may undermine the morale and capacity to perform well on tests by some minorities...
Each study is based on opposing views of how potential murderers react to executions. Pierce and Bowers found that "the publicity surrounding an execution, let alone witnessing one, may cause some pepole--perhaps those on the fringe of sanity--to become fascinated and obsessed with the condemned person's crime, even to the point of imitating...
...escape with the amorphous answers often given. Candidates will be forced to answers questions with which they are uncomfortable. Second, it will push candidates to educate themselves completely on the entire range of matters relevant to a President. Third and most importantly, such a format will reveal how candidates react under pressure...