Word: reaction
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What will be the reaction of the members of the Class of 2030 when they find out they got “Allstoned?” If Harvard effectively plans the four undergraduate Houses across the river, being Allstoned won’t have the stigma of being Quadded. For the new Houses—which will replace the Quad—to be a success, Harvard must pay scrupulous attention to creating a unified undergraduate campus and make sure that the Allston Houses are not physically and psychologically separated from the River Houses...
...more sensible explanation for the panicked reaction in other markets to the tailspin in Shanghai is that it was simply an excuse to take some money off the table. The Dow Jones industrial average, for example, had recently hit all-time highs, having gone up for five straight years as American corporate profits soared. There hadn't been a single day in nearly four years in which U.S. stocks had fallen even 2%, an unusually long absence of volatility. Likewise, global markets from India to Singapore to Russia had been on a historic tear. Against this backdrop, China's sudden...
...beta testers for Kajeet, a new mobile-phone service for kids. "Oh, my god, yes!" she said. She made her first call from a local Italian restaurant, blithely disregarding wireless etiquette. "Guess what?" she said to her grandparents. "I have my own cell phone." Their reaction? "Why do you need that...
...Bureau of Study Counsel (BSC), and later held a “Dessert and Debriefing” event where students spoke openly about their own experiences and thoughts about the best ways to achieve mental health. MHAAG co-chair Eunice Yang ’08 said that student reaction to the group’s events had been lukewarm, and that only a few non-members had come to the rally, counseling session, or the evening event. Still, Yang said, the day’s goal had been reached. “The most important thing about this...
...mature at different ages but also because there is simply no definitive law that says that a child must be a certain age before he or she can encounter the word “scrotum.” Instead, in this particular case, the response demonstrates a knee-jerk reaction to one taboo word, rather than appropriate consideration of the context in which it appears...