Word: reactional
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That move provoked a strong reaction from Bill Clinton, generally seen in Israel as the most sympathetic of U.S. Presidents. For the first time, Clinton characterized the Jewish settlements as an "obstacle to peace," using terminology from the Reagan and Bush years that his Administration had dropped. For Netanyahu, says a senior State Department official, "it was a very strong wake-up call." Concerned that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations would peter out, or that violence would again erupt, Clinton dispatched Dennis Ross, the State Department's special Middle East coordinator, to Jerusalem with a mission to hammer away until Hebron...
...projects and other high-cost initiatives, according to several department chairs who were briefed on the projections.The report of the projections came at a chairs’ retreat in September, when Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby also confirmed his intention to sharply slow faculty hiring as a reaction to unexpectedly high pressure on the budget. That decision took professors by surprise when word of it trickled out of University Hall in late summer.But in an e-mail yesterday, Kirby cast higher expenditures as part of a plan to expand the Faculty’s physical and human resources...
...That's not the only warning Verizon shares regarding this phone. Perhaps to avoid the angry reaction to last year's "crippled" Motorola V710 (a phone I still use, by the way), Verizon is quick to point out that while the VX9800 has Bluetooth, it supports it only for wireless headsets and hands-free accessories, not for synching with a PC's desktop...
Having written plays with cheery names like The Birthday Party and The Lover that are in fact the opposite of cheery, HAROLD PINTER, 75, could be thought of as a bit of a downer. But there was nothing grim about his reaction to the news that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The playwright told reporters he was "bowled over" by the $1.3 million award. He didn't mean it literally; the wound on his head came from a recent fall. Here's hoping we'll finally get a Pinteresque award-acceptance speech. Nothing says elation like tense...