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EARLY AMERICANS LIVED IN FEAR OF A NOR'EASTER howling in from the Atlantic. Modern Americans see nature as well under control and react with indignation when it is unchained. So it was last week, with holiday schedules busy and tempers already frayed, as one of the fiercest storms of the century hit the East Coast. Record coastal floods and snowfalls -- nearly 3 ft. in parts of West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts -- resulted when a 170-m.p.h. jet stream collided with a storm that had caused tornadoes in California, then skimmed along the Gulf Coast and out to sea before...
Judy Williams, a member of the Beacon Hill Meeting, said that the Cambridge Meeting, with 300 members, cannot react as quickly as the smaller Boston group...
...eliminate its armed forces entirely, of course, but it does not know precisely what external dangers it will have to defend against or what it might need for the purpose. Military planners in Moscow say they want to organize a relatively small, fast-moving high-tech force that could react swiftly to security threats along the troubled periphery. The generals expect to bring troop strength down to 1.5 million officers and men sometime after 1993. How soon depends on finding ways to house and employ the hundreds of thousands of professional officers who will be demobilized. The housing shortage...
...many on the Harvard campus? Primarily because the University did not reach a reasoned conclusion over time that a "point-of-service" plan was an appropriate idea here and ought to be pursued. Although such plans have been around for several years, Harvard administrators found themselves forced to react quickly to an attractive offer from the newly-formed HealthFlex Blue, and had to communicate the new option hastily. A careful, broadly-consultative decision about a point-of-service plan could have been reached. It was not, because no one in Harvard's administration was thinking about...
...have problems playing with a lead. We tend to sit back and react to what the other team does," Burke said. "It's a young team, and we don't have much poise...