Word: reactional
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There could hardly have been a stronger reaction at two early screenings of Che last week if Ernesto Guevara himself had shown up. (The old soldier would be 80, if he hadn't been killed in Bolivia in 1967.) In Miami Beach, a few dozen protesters, mostly pensioners who had fled Cuba after the Castro takeover on New Year's Day, 1959, protested the showing of Steven Soderbergh's bio-epic. "The Jewish community would never allow any kind of film about Hitler like this to play here," Abilio Leon, 65, told the Miami New Times. "It's the same...
...Thais will attempt to label you by your appearance and may expect you to behave in ways that they have previously experienced with people similar to you. This is a normal reaction to your strangeness...
...product manager, who is responsible for coordinating with outside designers. New and young: the average age of a category manager is 30. But the concept of "no mark, quality goods," which is nearly as old, remains central. "What is foremost in the designers' thinking is how to get a reaction from consumers that is, 'Of course, it's Muji,' when they experience a product." Yasui says the task is to remind consumers of Muji and its quality, and the struggle is to find a balance between something of slightly better quality that appeals to people in their...
...ruling party in South Africa, has been slow to respond to the crisis in Zimbabwe. Only in light of the recent news of the cholera outbreak has the ANC acknowledged the problem, declaring that the parties in Zimbabwe ought to work toward unity. But as with the reaction by the AU, this attitude is insufficient. South Africa must take direct action. In short, a change in direction is long overdue in Zimbabwe, and the coming weeks and months are critically important in the struggle for that change. The problem is much bigger than an unchecked disease outbreak?...
...opinion, that negative reaction only demonstrates the need for further informational campaigns. It highlights the extent of the problem, that people are not as concerned as they should be,” Kogan said...