Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...physical traits, Hamer emphasizes, these genes do not cause people to become homosexuals, thrill-seeking rock climbers or anxiety-ridden worrywarts. The biology of personality is much more complicated than that. Rather, what genes appear to do, says Hamer, is subtly bias the psyche so that different individuals react to similar experiences in surprisingly different ways...
...wins a grant or looks good on a transcript. And faced with the weaknesses of the undergraduate curriculum, such as a flawed Core curriculum, large class sizes, inadequate mentorship and so on, we are more likely to complain about what isn't being provided for us, if we even react at all, and less likely to take things into our own hands--to experiment with finding ways to make our education more enriching...
...would your friends react if they saw you hanging out with the other people at this table...
...problem. And he may be right for a different reason: the history of megamergers is that they tend not to work as planned. "When you create these oversize companies, they become vulnerable by definition," says Porter Bibb, a senior investment banker at Ladenburg Thalmann. Big firms can't react to small opportunities, so new businesses pop up to fill the void. Some inevitably grow enough to challenge the giants. Indeed, every merger phase in the U.S. in the past 30 years has been followed by a period of divestitures as companies retreated to their "core competencies...
Some recipient tack these letters to a "wall of shame" and go forth boldly. Others promptly get on the phone to put themselves on a waiting list or pull whatever strings it's not too late to pull. The majority of us, however, react the way any normal person would to the news that we're not wanted: we tear the letters into shreds or bury them deep in our desk drawers, and hang out heads for at least the remainder of the day. No matter if there is a official explanation-- "I'm only a sophomore and they asked...