Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Martin was never very good at keeping quiet, either as a player or as a manager. He is, to put it mildly, an aggressive type, and he did not react well to the constant adversity the Yankees have faced over the last season and a half...
...analysis," aimed at determining the degree of peril to which the company and its high-level executives are exposed. After that study, which may take as long as six months if the client has overseas branches, the advisers draw up a plan that outlines exactly how the company should react in various emergency and hostage situations, and designates which officers would make up the crisis staff...
...this Southern talent of commanding attention in any room with his storytelling; Mom would react to him in an intense way. Though not social or gregarious, they were like a vaudeville team at home, and Warren and I would sit there and watch. It made both of us rather shy, and one of our quests in life has been to overcome that shyness with self-expression...
...halved, the street-cleaning fund would drop from $783,000 to $90,000, and the city's human rights commission (scheduled to spend $332,101) would get no money at all. Even so, Moscone said: "I don't take a doomsday approach to how this city is going to react to crisis. We've been through earthquakes, don't ya know?" An anonymous poet was less optimistic, leaving this ditty taped to the door of San Francisco's city hall...
...author recommends that parents react tolerantly to the child's willfulness and compulsive no-saying at this stage. Parents should resist some demands, give in to others. A child who wins too often emerges "with an overly extended, overly grand notion of its power." But a child who loses too many battles "emerges from its second birth with a pervasive sense of humiliation and self-doubt." If so, it will develop into a compliant child whose protest may emerge late as bedwetting, foolish behavior or theft...