Word: reacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klerk is improving South Africa's image overseas. How would the world react if the Conservative Party came to power and changed course...
...career minor-leaguer who had just saved his first and only game in the majors. "I don't mind that from George. He signs the checks," says Righetti, the senior statesman among the denizens of baseball's Bronx Zoo. "What got me was how quick Hank was to react. He didn't have any patience either...
Lucas and Rene focus on the human side of AIDS: the inability of good friends to know how to react properly to the illness, the changes in everyday life caused by fear and management of the virus and, of course, the virus' enormous impact on personal relationships and social behavior. The talented group of male actors convey their own special reactions to AIDS, and they create a mood of comaraderie and intimacy that is touching but not overly sentimental...
...better known for tending to constituent needs than for innovative leadership. Even as a candidate, he skirted specifics, going so far as to proclaim that he did not see the need for new taxes. But budget realities and the assumption of command revealed a very different Jim Florio. "Legislatures react," he says crisply. "Executives initiate." With 67% of New Jerseyites grudgingly agreeing that new taxes were inevitable, Florio worked them relentlessly for support of his proposals. In diners, gyms, boardrooms and convention halls, he explained his position again and again. "A lot of politicians are just plain lazy," he says...
...silence oppressed us all the more. We tried to distract Father by attempting to strike up a conversation about some more or less neutral news from Moscow, but he didn't react. Sometimes he broke the silence himself by saying bitterly that his life was over, that life made sense as long as people needed him, but now, when nobody needed him, life was meaningless. Sometimes tears welled up in his eyes...