Word: react
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...road diet." In cities as large as Las Vegas, Toronto and Seattle and hamlets as small as Sammamish, Wash., he has trimmed lanes and filled the space with bike routes or a grassy buffer between the asphalt and the sidewalk to ease walkers' stress. Of course, motorists tend to react to Burden as they might to a jackknifed manure spreader directly in their path. "They say ,'We already have a traffic problem,'" says Burden, "'and now you want to take lanes away...
...didn't worry about how people were going to react," Air's keyboard specialist Jean-Benoit Dunckel explains. (Air's other half is Nicolas Godin, who mainly plays guitar and bass.) "The idea was simply to do the most demented thing possible...
...this piecemeal development often causes individual communities to react to each of Harvard’s initiatives...
...would Gretsch, who concedes he has yet to test smell technology, react to a business plan from a smelly start-up? "In this market it would end up in the circular file," he says. Or, depending on the level of technobabble, it might have a more dignified end. "We save some business plans just because they're funny," says Gretsch...
...Smart objects are defined here as objects that can sense and react to the world around them and that can communicate with other smart objects via smart networks. A human is said to "own" a smart object upon purchase, except for those rights retained by the manufacturer and stated more or less clearly in the purchasing contract. Neither the owner nor manufacturer may be held responsible for smart objects that run amok without warning and no smart object can be disassembled without a lengthy trial with good lawyers on all sides...