Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Epps said his initial reaction to thepetition was to check its legality given theframework of HSA's charter to the University. Hesaid part of the corporation's Harvard chartercalls for it to serve in an educational role foremployees and to contribute to the University'sfinancial aid program. He said that limiting thepower of administrators and alumni on the boardmay hamper these mandates...
...question after tonight is what George Bush's response will and should be. The simple fact that he declined ABC's offer already hurts him somewhat. He should, and will, wait for the reaction to Dukakis' performance. If Dukakis is seen as having botched things up, or as not having turned the tide, then Bush will be able to ignore the incident, do nothing, and ride his momentum to the White House...
...reaction calls to mind a comment by then Chief Judge Coffin, who...struck down a like contention, stating "...puffs of this sort of smoke do not indicate the existence of any flame...
Commission members insist that the report is "party blind," but the project is clearly a reaction to the heavy-handed news management practiced by the Reagan Administration. Reagan has held fewer press conferences than any other TV-era President -- an average of about six a year, compared with 22 1/2 for John F. Kennedy -- and informal access to him has been tightly restricted. "Shouting questions above the roar of helicopter engines just does not make it," says NBC News Washington bureau chief Robert McFarland...
What seems to have surprised observers is the speed with which the student body rushed to help the Black fraternity. "It was really amazing, the reaction of the campus," said Reardon. "It became a focal point of the university to react to the incident. All the white fraternities turned out and really, really took the initiative, helping them move in and raising money...