Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard cannot be an idle partner in efforts to deal with difference. There needs to be an institutional commitment both to react to "crisis" situations and to work actively to remedy the problems raised above. The two existing administrative organizations ostensibly devoted to furthering those goals within the College--The Harvard Foundation and The Office of Race Relations and Minority Affairs--do not live up to that promise...
Blout said her fellow students were less shocked and able to react more responsibly to Magic's announcement than those at other area schools because Rindge and Latin already spends so much effort on AIDS education...
Does all this reflect unalloyed good attitudes? Well, no. In detecting evidence of trouble in the U.S. that Americans themselves see, many Japanese react with sorrow more than anything like contempt. Explains Kazuo Ogura, a senior Foreign Ministry official and expert on U.S.-Japanese relations: "Because Japanese like America and want to admire it, they are frustrated. When they look at America, they see disintegration of the family, drugs, AIDS, middle-class values collapsing. Traditional values are what many Japanese still respect and think important...
...greatest single cause of American complacency in the Pacific was the fact that the U.S. military's Operation Magic had deciphered Japan's sophisticated Purple diplomatic code in 1940. But that triumph had its drawbacks. U.S. intelligence officials had to sift through so much trivia that they failed to react to some important messages, such as a Tokyo request to its Hawaiian consulate for the exact location of all ships in Pearl Harbor. Also, the code breaking was kept secret even from some key officials. While the British were plugged into Magic, and MacArthur too, Kimmel and Short were...
...direction of All the Luck is conventional, but that quality makes production strong. The characters react realistically to the implausible chain of events, which makes the audience take Miller's theme seriously...