Word: react
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more prominent cause for confusion--one that afflicts just about everyone--is the difference between the way that polls react to losses and the way the NCAA reacts to losses...
...CAMPAIGNS ARE ON OFFENSE, AND THE PRESS IS ON DEFENSE By that I mean, a campaign knows which move it's going to make, while reporters just react and try to figure it out. It's like in basketball - the guy with the ball always takes the first step; the defender has to adjust. Let's suddenly send the candidate to South Dakota. Why? Well, we're not exactly sure; let the press figure it out. Yes, there is more science to it than reporters think, but there's also a lot more guesswork masquerading as knowledge. And speaking...
With the right conjunction of happenstance, fortune and, perhaps, the stars, TIME can react to the week's news around the world with as many as 11 different covers. We have the capacity to tailor each regional edition to the needs of its readers. Fortunately, such thoroughgoing multifacetedness is rarely called upon. Nevertheless, the U.S., European, Asian, Australian, Canadian and Latin American editions often have different cover stories each week. And all of them create much of their own content...
...does your typical nine-year-old boy react to the sight of a female classmate who towers over him and is sprouting breasts? Many boys may barely notice, so immersed are they in soccer, video games and other pleasures of the so-called latency period--the grade-school years when youngsters pay little heed to the opposite sex. "Boys of that age tend to regard girls almost like members of a different species," says Dr. Glenn Elliott, director of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. "They really don't have much concept...
...girls in a form of youthful sexual harassment that covers up any discomfort they feel. "It's kind of stimulating and disorienting to have these girls be so changed," says psychologist Michael Thompson, the author of Speaking of Boys and co-author of Raising Cain. "The boys may often react in clumsy, immature and basically clueless ways...