Word: reacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best play of the day for Perry had to be the option flick to Art McMahon for Harvard's first touchdown. Perry held the ball long enough for the defense to react towards him and then tossed it to McMahon, who skirted into the end zone--thanks to a key block by Jim Reidy...
Since the 1970s, American foreign policy has been sharply constrained by its inability to react adequately to the terrorist actions used by radical Arab organizations--and nations--as a tool of diplomatic leverage. During the dark days of the Carter Administration, airplane hijackings and hostage-takings effectively paralyzed a president too pacifistic to protect his own citizens...
...would probably react differently to a coworker who was a woman if she asked me to get her coffee than I would to a man. And while I realize that is probably not a fair attitude, I still will not change my position...
...image is gripping: Mikhail Gorbachev as the daring surfer, nimbly sliding across a wave, vanishing into the spume, only to reappear, confidently using the giant comber looming over him to increase his speed. That is the Soviet President's way with crises. He seems to react to them faster than any of his rivals, skillfully turning them into vehicles to help accelerate his perestroika program and bolster his crusade against the immobile bureaucracy. Gorbachev's adroitness at converting danger into momentum is a high-risk performance that can make onlookers hold their breath as they wonder how long the daring...
...type rules would revert to their libertarian pasts. In this competition to suppress, is regard for freedom of expression just a matter of whose ox is getting gored at the moment? Does the left just get nervous about the Christian cross when Klansmen burn it, while the right will react only when Madonna flirts crucifixes between her thighs...