Word: reacted
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Congressional Democrats remain slightly puzzled about how to react to Bush's strategy of proffering a velvet glove clutching a closed wallet. After years of bitter deadlock with Reagan, they tended to mute their criticism of a President so palpably eager to negotiate. Some, like Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski, were amused by the incongruities of the President's new compassionate language. "Bush sounded a lot like Michael Dukakis," she joked. "I hate to use that L word, but it sounded liberal, liberal, liberal...
Unless postponement is tactically useful. Since the U.S. began discussions with the P.L.O. last December, Israel has heard little from the Administration's highest reaches. The result has been frantic maneuvering in Jerusalem, movement that may make the next step toward negotiations easier. Rather than react to an American agenda, Yitzhak Shamir's government is being forced to craft its own. "Sometimes," says Baker, "a pro-active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time...
...controlled chaos of Chicago's commodities pits, there is no time to reflect, only time to react, to buy when the market heads north, to sell the instant it flounders. Thus the busy traders never really stopped to wonder about the unusual behavior of several new colleagues who regularly lost thousands of dollars but kept coming back for more, day after day for two years. Tom Hicks, a trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, remembers one in particular named Peter Vogel: "He was real clean-cut -- wing tips, clipped hair, tie always knotted tightly. He didn't dress like...
...environmental boiling point right now. Is the destruction of one football-field's worth of forest every second enough to make the frog react and jump out of the pan? What will it take? If, as in a science-fiction movie, we had a giant invader from space clomping across the rain forests of the world with football field-size feet -- going boom, boom, boom every second -- would we react? That's essentially what is going on right...
...whales trapped in the Arctic ice, struggling for air, and the world responded. The U.S. and the Soviet Union cooperated. Yet we see 40,000 babies starving every day, and we don't react. What is wrong with...