Word: reactionism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hardly anyone does, because nuclear meltdown is no longer a major fear in the U.S. But Japan Thursday faced the worst nuclear emergency in its history, after an accident at a fuel processing plant put 14 people in the hospital and forced mass evacuations. Officials said that a nuclear reaction may still be continuing inside the Tokaimura fuel processing plant, which was evacuated after workers saw blue flames rising above a batch of fuel and complained of nausea. Radiation levels 15,000 times higher than normal were reported around the plant, the site of Japan?s previous worst nuclear accident...
...sparse reaction to the announcement contrasts with backlash to the College's 1995 decision to randomize upperclass housing, which culminated in a noisy protest led in part by then-Adams House Master Robert J. Kiely...
...week after the College announced it would reduce the maximum size of blocking groups from 16 to eight, student leaders throughout the House system say they have heard little reaction to the policy change in their Houses, despite widely varied opinions of its merits...
There's going to be a reaction against all this weight-reduction jazz, and ponderous will be the fashion. What better metal as an emblem for that new age than tungsten--the highest melting, the strongest, the ultimate heavy metal. --Roald Hoffmann, department of chemistry, Cornell...
...This reaction of the frequent binge drinker is shared by the International Center for Alcohol Policies, which describes itself as "supported by eleven international beverage alcohol companies." A report of this center refers to a ten-drink measure of dangerous drinking in contrast to our five-drink measure. That's one way to drastically reduce the size of the college alcohol problem: define it out of existence...