Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Representatives?were first elected within the past nine years; more than one-third of them have been in office for three years or less. Young, well-educated and aggressively independent?of both their own leaders and the White House?they are continuing the congressional revolution that started as a reaction to the tragic mistakes of Viet Nam and Richard Nixon's imperial presidency. The balance has been restored, and perhaps even swung in the opposite direction: Congress, the branch of Government that most closely reflects the will of the people, is again filling its constitutional role as a check...
...bizarre idea is that quasars are "white holes," portals through space and time linking our universe and a mirror-image universe composed of antimatter. When antimatter from that other world comes in contact with the "normal" matter of our own, the two totally annihilate each other. That kind of reaction, involving a complete conversion of mass into energy, could explain the prodigious energy output of the quasars...
Comparable results have been obtained at Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo and Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan. There, scientists use the reaction in an electric field between the patient's blood and serum from immunized rabbits to determine acid phosphatase levels...
...tale a simple epic--45 years of conflict between landlords and peasants in northern Italy, living out a history most of us already know. He could have shown us the breakdown of the traditional patronage system under the influence of industrialization, the rise of peasant leagues, the landlords' reaction and the spread of fascism without involving us so totally; or he could have shown us the characters' interaction without making such a detailed effort to place their lives in a social and political context...
...high and triple jumps in the three meets Harvard has swept this season. As a competitor, Kayali is a master of the art of one-upmanship. During the Boston College meet, in the long jump, BC jumper Amjad Ghori leaped the prodigious distance of 22' 10". From the reaction of the BC fans it was obvious that Ghori had just jumped the longest distance of his life, apparently sewing up first place for the Eagles. His lead, however, lasted until Kayali took his next turn, when he pulled an untouchable 22' 11 1/4" mark, his best jump ever this side...