Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Black lawyer slated to testify for Bork, Baker's change of mind following conversations with a Black aide to Senator Howard Metzenbaum drew national attention. While it's unknown exactly why Baker decided not to testify, Williams speculates that the reason has to do with expected negative reaction by other Blacks. Baker, Williams said, "may feel that the issue is not worth the sacrifice in social contacts and ostracism...
...marijuana story, revealed Thursday,provoked strong reaction from both supporters anddetractors of the nomination. Several Law Schoolfaculty members greeted Ginsburg's withdrawal withanger at the Reagan Administration and the press.Others expressed disappointment with Ginsburg, whohas been an appeals judge for one year...
Some Yale students in attendance questioned Schmidt on the sincerity of his presentation given his reaction to an August Wall Street Journal article that called Yale a "gay school...
...What I did was just a reaction to what was going on," Sampeck said in an interview, adding that she had cheated in retaliation against Jacobsen's earlier cheating...
...denied the committee was related to the decrease in pro-divestment activity on campus. "The proposed committee is not a reaction to the lessening of activity at Harvard and around the country in antiapartheid programs," Martin said. "We would have thought about doing something as a class no matter what...