Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rather it seemed to have been an Iranian effort to test Iraqi defenses along the southern front. Nonetheless, the recent Iraqi aerial bombardment may be causing morale problems within Iran. The Khomeini government cannot afford a serious setback on the battlefield, but neither can it afford a widespread civilian reaction against the stalemated...
Foreign intrusion has frequently spurred student reaction. When Japan presented the Chinese government with its "21 demands" in 1915, which included the ceding of the northeastern province of Shandong to Tokyo, thousands of Chinese students studying abroad returned home to protest what they saw as a humiliating affront to the country's sovereignty. Reports that Britain, France and Italy had agreed at Versailles to support Japanese claims to Shandong sparked a demonstration of some 5,000 students in Peking on May 4, 1919, and protests at more than a dozen universities across the country. Mao Tse-tung later labeled...
...years. Mancuso, says one of his superiors at Gulf & Western, "has an extraordinary sense of what is going to work in the * marketplace and how to position it." As Paramount chief, he has clearly outdone himself in that department by leading the studio back to the top. His reaction to Paramount's renewed high standing, though, is modest. Says Mancuso: "We have gone to No. 1 in 1986 with great style. But we're not going to overreact to this...
...climbing back to the top, Paramount has made more use than other studios of extra postproduction filming and so-called research screening: assessing the opinions of preview audiences to fine-tune movies for consumer appeal. Early audience reaction persuaded the studio to beef up the love interest in Top Gun and rework completely the ending of Pretty in Pink. In the past, extensive additional film work was regarded as a "stigma," says a former Paramount executive. "But Paramount has done it consistently on almost every movie this year, with the exception of Star Trek...
...half the country's $98 billion debt. The creditors fear that other major debtors, like Brazil and Argentina, will demand similar concessions. Camdessus' main challenge is to continue the delicate process of helping Third World debtors reduce their obligations, while avoiding the spark that could ignite a destructive chain reaction of defaults...