Word: act
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...History is always a balancing act. You have to be true to the people of the time you are studying, but you also have to be faithful to the concerns of the present...
...lawsuit against Harvard by recording artists would be grounded in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The law relieves Internet service providers such as Harvard from any obligation to monitor their users for illegal actions. But once Harvard is notified that its users are breaking the law, it must take down any infringing material...
...unemployment and uncertainty to millions of ordinary Chinese, raising the specter of massive social unrest that could potentially tear China apart. The depth of that fear among the leadership was evident in last year's crackdown on the apparently harmless Falun Gong religious sect, and it will almost certainly act as a brake on Beijing's implementing the economic liberalization measures to which it has agreed. So while the Senate vote ends the annual unpleasantness between Beijing and Washington when Congress would rattle its saber at China before dutifully extending normal trade status for another year, it opens what promises...
...instance, Sara Lee initiated a recall of 35 million pounds of its Ball Park hot dogs and other deli meats contaminated with Listeria while regulators were still debating whether public health was threatened (it was). Firestone has waited at almost every turn for the government's signal to act...
...Many soldiers let the perceived power go to their heads, and that power was abused" one unidentified soldier told investigators. "Soldiers would spit on locals, push them on the streets, poke the women with sticks, and generally act like barbarians." On one occasion, after a boy had obtained permission to take some soldiers' photograph, one of the troops grabbed his camera and smashed it on the ground, the report said. This happened after they had agreed to let them take their picture," a U.S. Army civilian interpreter told investigators. "This," the report concluded, "was an unprovoked attack on a child...