Word: reaction
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Still, while he repeatedly called his speech a mistake, Summers also criticized some of the ensuing reaction and media coverage...
...with your wife or children-something multiple deployments have taken away. The Army is at a crossroads, and the only way to prevent a further decline in readiness and fighting ability is by electing leaders who have a clear, attainable vision for the future, not a shortsighted, knee-jerk reaction to everything. Name Withheld, U.S. Army, Baghdad...
...have premarital sex or to have multiple sex partners. One-night stands are losing their status as reprehensible. In Harvard dining halls, swapping weird sex tales is hardly an irregular occurrence. As a result of this sexual liberalism becoming the status quo, social conservatism is being reduced to a reaction...
...other sanctions on violators, has largely outlived its usefulness. First implemented in 1978, the one-child policy has been so successful in checking China's population growth that the country now confronts the prospect of the rapid aging of its total population in the next two decades. The reaction of many Chinese demographers, not surprisingly, has been to call for the abolition of the one-child policy, which they say has served its purpose. Other critics point out that India has achieved broadly similar declines in fertility without state coercion or occasional brutality...
...least, and it’s probably safe to assume that most parents would not respond with such hurtful and abusive language if their child were to tell them he or she is an atheist. Perhaps what is more unsettling, however, is that the mother’s reaction reflects, albeit in a distorted and grossly amplified way, the sentiments of many Americans...