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...housing bubble and spots of stubborn unemployment. This time Greenspan was betting not just that the good news would prevail but also that America might soon confront the risk of renewed inflation. Greenspan is fond of noting that his job involves the study of how human beings react to a continually changing economy. "If we judge that current conditions are similar to particular historic circumstances," he says, "then we can expect a similar result and, with some range of error, anticipate the future." And in Greenspan's case, perhaps even control it. --By Adam Zagorin
...don’t have to listen to anybody,” Loeb said. “There’s a manipulated fear from the administration: ‘If you question us, you are part of terrorism.’ Anyone who calls us unpatriotic when we react to them, we have to say, ‘How dare you?’” he continued quietly...
...envisioned students advising at different points on things like: what’s the right message to use, what’s likely to work, how will students react to alcohol,” Badaracco said...
...troops return fire, 3rd platoon members rush up a dilapidated staircase, taking another rooftop position. They had understood that another company would halt traffic moving down Easy Street, but cars keep coming. Warning shots force some to back up. But one car, then a truck, then another car, react to the warning shots by speeding up, at which point the Marines shoot first the tires, then the windshield...
...greatest fears about acceleration are not pedagogical but psychological. The leapfroggers may ace exams, but isn't it depressing to leave friends and become the runt in a class of older strangers? How does a 12year-old react when her 15year-old classmates start making out after school and getting their driver's permits...