Word: reactional
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...What's the response been from your label and fans since you put this letter out? At last check, all the people I work with regularly at the label seemed to think it was a very evenhanded telling of the story. The loudest online reaction tends to be from disagreers - there are a lot of people out there who think labels are Satan's spawn. It's not only a really simplistic view of the world, but it's one that misses major chunks of how the music industry works. Our fans themselves are expressing a lot of gratitude...
...known is as a Negro - at least for the time being. Considering that older black people are more likely to use the term, Negro will almost surely eventually come off the Census. But it is important to remember that when it does, it will not be a simple reaction to changing social mores. In 1970 the Census changed its black category from "Negro" to "Negro or Black." The Federal Government sent a form to every U.S. household and effectively said, We have a new way of thinking about this particular group of people. Census categories reflect perceptions. But they also...
...difficult to challenge in normal economic times, which is the main reason some French executives continue to fear that the current global recession could morph into something more serious: a 1930s-style meltdown capable of shaking the entire economic structure to its foundations. Were that to happen, chain-reaction bankruptcies of companies could force the French state to step in and nationalize industries, dismantling the boardroom power structure. (See pictures of President Nicolas Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...
Turns out you probably won't ever make up for those all-nighters you pulled in college. Researchers at Harvard-affiliate Brigham and Women's Hospital find that chronic sleep loss over several weeks causes reaction time to slow almost tenfold, increasing the risk of fatigue-related accidents...
Several weeks into the study, for example, the subjects’ average reaction time at night had slowed from a quarter of a second to almost four seconds...