Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...General John Shalikashvili, on whether the U.S. should punish Cuba with a cruise-missile attack or air strikes. The general argued against any military action, and Clinton eventually abandoned the idea. But five days after that, the White House sent a secret note warning Havana that the U.S. would react militarily if more planes were shot down. The following week a belligerent U.S. Congress passed the conservative Helms-Burton bill, imposing even more draconian sanctions than the 34-year-old U.S. embargo. Foreign-policy aides opposed the bill, which punishes foreign companies that trade with Cuba. But the President could...
Kent said the playbooks for the two sides of the ball are very different. "On defense, you react as a play comes toward you. You have a few stunts, but it is overall easier to learn...
...other three residents of the room, who also asked to remain anonymous, said they had been awakened during the incident but were too dazed to react. The other roommate said he slept through...
...trying to cope with this mishmash of stimuli, people could react in two ways. They could throw up their hands and withdraw even further into their own interests. Or they could turn once again to traditional news outlets, which help put the chaos in some kind of intelligent order. Just how all this will play out--for our understanding of the world around us, for our sense of community, and for the future of journalistic enterprises like the one you're reading--will be one of the big stories of the next decade. It might even make the evening news...
Give yourself at least several months to pursue a job before you leave. Obviously, it is a more time-consuming process when your letters are travelling thousands of miles and when you may be corresponding with someone who is not quite sure how to react to an American student's request for a job. For a summer job, it's not unreasonable to begin this process in the autumn, even though you shouldn't expect a definite answer before the spring...