Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intervening years, however, there has been evidence that the market often fails to react as quickly as problems demand. The world took 15 years to respond to signs of ozone depletion in the upper atmosphere, but because ozone-destroying chemicals take 15 years to migrate to that stratum, the real delay amounts to 30 years. Moreover, these chemicals can remain in the atmosphere as long as 100 years. In addition, market forces often work perversely to hasten the demise of species and resources. The increasing appetite for bluefin tuna among sushi lovers and health-conscious diners has vastly increased...
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...
Perhaps not coincidentally, a hush seemed to fall over the campaign last week. Resting up for the final push, Bush took the better part of two days off -- a move that left Clinton's quick-reaction team without much to react to. Both campaigns put new negative ads on the air: Clinton's commercials attacked Bush's poor handling of the economy, while Bush's ads lampooned Clinton's enthusiasm for raising taxes in Arkansas. The race is sure to get nastier: both camps consider this first wave of negative spots to be in the kinder and gentler category...
...want to see whether this is a one year phenomenon or if it's a pattern, before we react to anything too quickly, too soon," Rudenstine said, adding that he will wait to see this spring's admissions outcome before taking any action...
...definitely going to go after those games," said Locker, "You never know how a team is going to react to a situation like that...