Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enormously. One thing that his 30-man team learned from Washkansky's case, said Barnard, is that the recipient's body is less prone to reject a heart transplant than a kidney, so future patients will not be so heavily dosed with drugs to suppress the immune reaction. That means less danger of infection and more hope of lasting success...
...Federal Reserve Board's increase in the discount rate from 4% to 4½% in November was primarily a reaction to international pressures on the dollar created by the devaluation of the British pound. Many observers saw it also as a domestic signal that the Fed was disturbed by inflationary pressures that continued to rise even as Congress was refusing to pass a surtax. Last week Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin and his governors tipped another signal that they are worried about inflation. The board ordered an increase in the reserves of its member banks. The order affected...
...Hertz's "efficiency expert," who asked: "And why, why are we doing all this?" In an apparent satire on Nazi war criminals, he answered: "I don't know. I'm just following orders." Funny? The 94 persons who wrote or called up the network- an unusual reaction for a commercial spot-did not think so. They found it downright offensive...
...important result of this experiment is the interested reaction of the audience; given the chance, they did prefer active participation to passive entetrainment. And if, as producer Lee said, the purpose of televising the game is "to make more people more sensitive to the problems involved in formulating foreign policy," it seemed to be a great success...
Suddenly, he sucked in his breath and grabbed at his chest. To those seeing Kidwell's reaction on tape, it seemed plain that he was re-experiencing being shot by his wife. Swearing with pain, he forgave her ("It ain't hurt nothing, it's in the skin"), then cursed her. Finally, his jumbled words conveyed that he had got the gun and shot...