Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later, Vice President George Bush, echoing the themes stressed by the President, was roundly booed by an audience gathered at the Washington Hilton for the third International Conference on AIDS. In an aside that was picked up on an open television microphone, Bush, taken aback by the reaction, asked, "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" Before his speech, an estimated 350 protesters, some of them suffering from AIDS, had staged a noisy demonstration in front of the White House. District of Columbia police, wearing yellow rubber gloves to protect against possible AIDS-virus infection, arrested...
...Verbal reaction followed the same down- and upbeat course. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo's respected business daily, headlined an editorial VOLCKER'S RESIGNATION IS VERY REGRETTABLE. But Takeshi Ohta, deputy governor of Japan's central bank, said with evident satisfaction, "Mr. Greenspan is the best successor that the President could have chosen." British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson called Greenspan's appointment an "excellent choice." In the U.S., where Greenspan is much better known, most economic thinkers and money managers hailed the Fed newcomer -- once they had regretted Volcker's departure. Said Frederick Joseph, chief executive officer...
...Marshall defined it, his program was "directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." In an era when the Truman Doctrine has been supplanted by the Reagan Docrtrine, and our foreign policy seems to lurch from one knee-jerk reaction to communism to the next, we might best remember the Marshall Plan not as a bastion against the East, but as a foundation for the open development of the West. The broad strokes Secretary Marshall painted here four decades ago remain an object lesson in how to overcome the limits of ideology...
Despite the increased publicity, students and administrators say AIDS has had little impact on the Harvard community. The special committee meets infrequently and is primarily concerned with the community's reaction to AIDS victims, as UHS has primary responsibility for education about the disease...
Dukakis's first term as governor was characterized by public relations problems, as many of the policies he instituted provoked reaction from community groups and the press. Massachusetts earned the sobriquet of "Taxachusetts" under Dukakis's leadership in the mid-1970s as the state tried to remedy an economic crisis with taxes that were among the highest in the nation...