Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaction of the local residents to the filming is not always positive. There is a good deal of ambivalence toward the "rich Hollywood types." Several interviewees see the film's presence as an annoyance. They are disturbed by the awareness that all the good things the production has brought them (i.e. more police officers, clean streets and extra traffic lights) will disappear as soon as the film is over...
Fusion, the nuclear reaction that powers the sun, was originally thought to occur only at extremely high temperatures and pressures...
WASHINGTON--President Reagan's advisers yesterday recommended curtailing deposit insurance for bank and savings and loan accounts, triggering swift negative reaction from Congress and the Treasury Department...
Across the Bay in San Francisco's public library, a chain reaction rippled through the stacks, dumping 250,000 books into piles on the floor. At a meeting of water-pollution-control officials at the Moscone Convention Center, security guard Charles Scott stood with 200 people at an awards ceremony. "Suddenly people were falling off the stage, and the lights went out," he said. "Then everyone panicked and starting running in all directions. I screamed, 'Don't run, don't run!' But people were running over each other, and I was knocked down." Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt...
...Fujisawa Pharmaceutical of Osaka, FK-506 is derived from a soil fungus found in Japan. Starzl first learned of the drug in 1986 at a meeting in Helsinki. Other researchers had dismissed it because in studies using dogs it caused severe bleeding and other problems. But Starzl believed the reaction occurred in dogs alone and undertook a graduated series of experiments on several other animals, from rats to baboons. These tests were encouraging, and in February 1989 Starzl tried the drug on Robin Ford, a 26- year-old secretary who was in danger of rejecting her third liver. After...