Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ticket items and food before prices went up. Some stood in lines to buy dollars and deutsche marks even at the higher rate. Some banks closed, some strictly limited withdrawals, and some seemed unfazed and conducted business as usual. "Most people don't know how to react," says an exchange-office teller. "They don't know whether they should sell their dollars or their rubles. I'm confused myself...
...tranquil hamlet of Morris Township, N.J., knows quite how to react to the news. Cops had staked out Sunnymede for seven months; they moved in for the bust in early August, hauling off four suspected prostitutes and 15 agitated men, some of them corporate executives spouting excuses about having got lost ("I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," said one) and about having expected only a rubdown ("My shirt was on. My pants were on," said another). Last Monday the brothel's alleged madam, Judith Kelly Dempsey, 46, returned to her $1.6 million home from...
PRINCE WILLIAM New book says youngster pushed royals to react with more heart to his mother's death...
...couple's car onto the tracks. Ding, ding, ding! The train is coming! Screech! The good guy accelerates, and the bad guys' van ends up on the tracks instead. Wham! Kapow! Impressive fireball! Fortunately, one of the bad guys is still alive and has time to look up and react--Wuh-oh!--just before the van is hit by a second train on parallel tracks, a deft directorial callback to an earlier scene in the same movie when another bad guy had time to look up and react just before being run over by a truck...
...death in southern Sudan, which has been hammered this year by El Nino-induced drought and a long-festering civil war. "We've got a hellacious famine on our hands," worries ROGER WINTER, director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees. The U.N. and U.S. have been slow to react to the crisis. Washington, which has slapped trade sanctions on the extremist Islamic regime in Khartoum, has recently increased its humanitarian aid to $70 million for this year. Even if relief is rushed in, aid officials estimate that up to 100,000 may still...