Word: reflexively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brzezinski has long been regarded as a hard-liner toward the Communists, yet he is far from a reflex cold warrior. He favors detente with Moscow but recommends greater caution and patience−and sometimes toughness−when negotiating with the Kremlin. Brzezinski also urges that the balance of power relationship with the Communist world no longer receive top priority. He calls for increased attention to the alliances with Western Europe and Japan, problems of the developing countries and global concerns like the environment and food supplies...
Meanwhile, the country staggered from one crisis to another. To finance rising deficits, the government printed pesos at a lightning pace, and prices rose almost daily. Dissatisfied workers paralyzed industry with strikes, and terrorist killings and kidnapings mounted. Isabel's reflex response to each crisis was a Cabinet shuffle. In 20 months, she had six Economy Ministers, six Interior Ministers and four Foreign Ministers. Because she could not lead the Peronist movement she inherited, left and far-right factions fell into open warfare...
Patty's explanation was that she was so cowed by the Harrises that the firing was simply a reflex action. Some reflex, said Browning: she had fired one gun, dropped it, picked it up again, and squeezed the trigger until it was empty, then grabbed a second gun and fired several other shots. Browning asked the members of the jury if, "as reasonable people," they could believe that...
...stands between Hurricane's sense of injustice and the outside world. When as a boy a white drunk tried to rape a member of his gang, Rubin responded by slashing the man's head open. When Hurricane was in custody and a cop called him "nigger," it was a reflex to smash the man's face...
...urged reporters to do longer stories and more investigative projects. Last week New York officials ordered a thorough reorganization of the state lottery, which had been shut down since the News exposed mismanagement in it last October. O'Neill has swung the editorial page away from its reflex conservatism. Recently, for instance, the News endorsed both New York State's equal rights amendment and a limited form of gun control - ideas that would have made the old News...