Word: reacts
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...took little time for the neighborhood to react. Austin is a precariously wholesome, integrated, mixed-income area and we sometimes pride ourselves on caring what goes on and how our neighbors are doing. Sort of a mythical all-American neighborhood, sans the TV blandness. We've had a Neighborhood Watch Committee for many years, but it had atrophied greatly by last August...
...UNDERSTAND why, we need to examine how people react to the imposition of sanctions on their country. Research suggests that when sanctions are applied against democratic states, people become more supportive, not less supportive, of the regime. Enfranchised citizens tend to perceive their government as legitimate, and hence tend to perceive international sanctions as an affront to everyone in the nation, not just the national leaders...
...just wish I'd handled the Pasternak affair the way I dealt with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich ((published in 1962)). In that case, I read the book myself. It is very heavy but well written. It made the reader react with revulsion to the conditions in which Ivan Denisovich and his friends lived while they served their terms...
...stunned to react at first, and then another guy came up and started hitting me in the head and kicking me," said the student, who requested anonymity...
...might Americans -- and the rest of the world -- react to the sight on television of hostages, including women and children, wasting away under an embargo imposed by their own government? Bush and his inner circle are banking on their belief that most Americans, having seen what happened in Iran and Lebanon, now agree it is a mistake to let U.S. policy be the ransom for hostages' lives. Bush, explains an Administration official, "is not going to sacrifice the interests of 250 million Americans in an attempt to buy the freedom of 2,500 Americans...