Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dumbfounded. My composure finally fell apart. I didn't know how to react, and just then a security guard asked to see my press pass. For the first time all night, my makeshift Crimson cut-out didn't wash...
...Serbs have shown exquisite calibration in cranking up the carnage to just below the point where the West will react. The war is about religious differences as well as territory and politics; it involves Serbian Orthodox, Bosnian Muslims and Croat Catholics. Serb militias now occupy 70% of Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving only Sarajevo and isolated pockets in the hands of Bosnia's mainly Muslim government. Among the most desperate are the besieged Muslim towns in eastern Bosnia, near the frontier with Serbia. It was their plight that prompted Clinton to order the airdrops over the snow-covered town of Cerska...
...really more fun than anything else. The only time I've ever wanted to actively tell someone else to shut up is when my upstairs neighbor developed a "U Can't Touch This" fetish. (Matherites get to know their neighbors' musical tastes pretty thoroughly and often do not react kindly--my Saturday Night Fever sesseions have gotten a few irate calls...
Barber: Sleep's not so safe either. Just last month the New England Journal of Medicine reported that when you're dreaming, the sympathetic nervous system, which helps the body react to emergencies, is twice as active as it is when you're awake. Your heart beats faster, your blood pressure goes up, and your blood can get stickier, so it can clot and cause a heart attack. On the other hand, waking up isn't so great either. Heart attacks occur more often in the morning than at any other time...
After announcing parts of his budget plan in his State of the Union address, President Clinton campaigned for its approval all over the country with extended marketing pitches--a true Clinton signature if there ever were one. One wondered if Carville and Begala had focus groups react to the plan before it was announced...