Word: react
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...example, one big achievement is instead of using competing and contradictory information, now the airlines and the FAA use the exact same weather predication map. Another: there is a "National Playbook," which, much like a NFL version, sketches out in precise detail how players will react to certain situations - only the participants are airplanes, and they maneuver around thunderstorms, not 350-lb. defensive linemen...
...Gasoline prices may not be so cooperative. And it remains to be seen if the White House will react to the political alarm bells. It seems that Bush and Cheney have correctly appraised the situation as market-based and, in the near term, pretty much unavoidable. OPEC isn't the problem this time; the current spike at the pumps, as well as any similar (or worse) summer pain, comes down to U.S. refineries - refinery fires, refinery maintenance, whether refineries can run at full capacity until October - not sympathy (or lack thereof) from Washington. As far as the Bush team...
...Unlike her sister who hadn't really figured out what she wanted to do with her life, Sophie had worked as a cardiac technician at a local hospital for more than a year. She found the work rewarding. It probably also helped train her to react swiftly and with methodical detachment in a crisis...
What worries U.S. planners most is how the FARC will react. To begin with, say U.S. and Colombian officials, the rebels will probably try to diversify their sources of revenue: which means more kidnappings and crime. But U.S. planners also think the FARC will try to hit back. Eradication flights already come under gunfire from FARC units trying to protect crops from spraying. And the FARC might yet expand their counterattacks by trying to go after Americans directly, hoping that enough body bags will scare the U.S. out of the region. One question you will constantly hear debated in Bogota...
...speak plainly." In life, and in Texas, that's probably a good philosophy. But in the more delicate world of international politics, it comes with an important caveat--you'd better know what you're talking about and have a good idea how your adversaries, and your friends, will react...