Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Essentially, this is the Multiflex: Restic believes he can convert the best instincts of a defense--instincts that normally serve a defense well--into advantage for his offense. By changing formations on every play, by setting several men in motion before the snap, he forces the defense to react to several changes before the play has even started, leaving the opponents confused and vulnerable. The coach's favorite phrase for the effect of the Multiflex is that it "negates defensive ability." And, Restic says, "The better the football player, the more the ability is negated." He explains: "Because when...
...night is balmy. The highway is lit by a full moon. Suddenly, as the car crests a hill, there it is, just 50 yards ahead, a terrorist roadblock: two small foreign cars, parked across the pavement. With only a second to react, the driver lunges at the emergency brake to lock the rear wheels, then jams down hard on the brake pedal too. He jerks the steering wheel to the right. The rear of the car twists savagely in a 180° "bootleg" turn...
...members, both men and women, of the National Organization for Women, the National Women's Political Caucus and the National Abortion Rights Action League. Preconvention polling by these groups showed that they had the votes to win on major issues, but no one knew how the delegates would react to high-pressure politicking by the Carter forces...
...argue that the grant of immunity was retroactive, thus shielding all their client's confessions from use by the Justice Department. Says Hartman: "It's a very sad day when the state takes a man, uses him to the hilt, and then the Feds come in and react to political pressure and indict him. We feel Veverka has been betrayed by the judicial system." Veverka thinks the message to police elsewhere will be clear: if you are tempted to come forward with the truth in a misconduct case...
...Tehran, some Western diplomats interpreted the release of Queen as "a good signal," possibly even a sort of trial balloon by Iranian authorities to determine how the populace would react. Others saw the release of Queen as a convoluted maneuver by Iran's clerical establishment to embarrass the beleaguered Banisadr. Observed a senior civil servant: "If Banisadr's rivals in the clergy were indeed trying to prove who is boss in Iran, they did an excellent job." Most Iranians believed that Khomeini, who chose to release five women and eight black male hostages last November, had simply decided...