Word: react
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some of the young working girls react more nervously. Today he's going after drug addicts and pickpockets. Tomorrow, they fear, it could be them. Who, after all, has the power or will to stop him if he chooses to broaden his list of undesirables? The city may be more secure for some, but for the girls peering nervously from across the street, life in Duterte's Davao seems more perilous than ever...
...that two people facing the same circumstances can react so differently? Why are some folks buffeted by the vicissitudes of life while others glide through them with grace and calm? Are some of us just born more nervous than others? And if you're one of them, is there anything you can do about...
...first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m. and, within a few hours, the campus had begun to react...
...pattern repeated once I came to college. Instead of my own relatives, now it was the loved ones of my loved ones who were being diagnosed with a scary regularity, and I started reacting differently. When someone to whom I was personally close got ill, I had learned how to handle it. But when it was a family friend’s son or my godparent’s mother, I would react by doing something entirely unconstructive, like punching walls or practicing karate kicks or going for an obscenely long run. I started to get unreasonably angry, feeling like...
...exercise was code-named Poised Response. Attorney General Janet Reno had invited 200 policemen...to plan how they'd react to a terrorist attack. They consider[ed] four scenarios: a car-bomb attack, a chemical-weapons strike on a Washington Redskins football game, the planting of an explosive device in a federal building and an assassination attempt on Madeleine Albright, the Secretary of State. But the war game quickly melted down into squabbling and finger pointing...