Word: reaction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beverly $85,700 in worker's compensation after finding that co-workers at the Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found, that he could no longer hold a job. The Miller company, which would pay the penalty, plans to appeal the ruling...
...agents are currently there looking for proof of fraud in the disposal and incineration of plutonium-laden wastes. But what has environmental officials most puzzled is something they never expected to find even at trouble-prone Rocky Flats: traces of radioactive strontium and cesium that a nuclear chain reaction could produce -- even though there is no nuclear reactor at the site. The Environmental Protection Agency has demanded a study to determine how the mysterious isotopes got to Rocky Flats...
...performance art. Beyond that, the Kronos is a resolute, almost fanatic champion of new music. It has given world premieres of more than 200 works, including five so far this year. "When people come to a Kronos concert," says Jeanrenaud, "they know they will hear something that requires a reaction, even if they don't like what they are hearing. You can't just sit back and relax...
...reaction of advertisers and broadcasters to Nielsen's new meter has been generally positive. With $25 billion in annual ad revenue at stake, the industry has an interest in accurate audience measurements. The one uncertainty, assuming the system works, is how viewers would react to the presence of a camera-like device in their homes. Nielsen officials take pains to point out that the machine would not transmit pictures -- only data about who is watching what...
Bush was frustrated. Deeply stung by domestic and allied criticism that he was drifting into a policy of pallid reaction to Kremlin moves, disappointed in the much touted "review" of Soviet policy that advised only a timid "status quo plus," Bush finally found the urge for action. More important, Baker returned from Moscow convinced that the Soviets were "really serious" about transforming the conventional balance. Gorbachev had laid out a forthcoming Soviet offer that looked as if it would produce both a propaganda coup and an opening for negotiations. Says a senior White House official: "Baker had a feeling that...