Word: reactional
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...Blair and Chirac. Now, it seems, the Continental giants have done it again. Turkish Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis branded the joint position "unacceptable," and his government will push, with British support, to get negotiations under way before mid-2004. "It's too early for us to give a harsh reaction," says a Turkish diplomat. "Things are happening every day." Whether or not they prevail in Copenhagen, the French and Germans are clearly working as a team. They want a meaningful commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, on Jan. 22, when Charles de Gaulle and Konrad...
...more than ready for the change. In the past few years of economic decline and rampant corruption - and especially in the run-up to the election - Kenyans have begun to poke fun at the old man in ways that used to be unthinkable. "What you are seeing is the reaction of people who are tired," says Godfrey "Gado" Mwampembwa, a popular cartoonist who began lampooning the President in 1992, when Kenya held its first real multiparty election. "Before then you couldn't touch him. Now all people want to talk about is the end of Moi. They're telling...
...same time, the U.S. hoped its tough tone would pre-empt any positive reaction to Iraq's appearance of cooperation, which might erode international readiness to take up arms against him. The White House is already worried the U.N. will accept a lower threshold of compliance than the U.S. The tough words also reflected the deep resistance lingering in some parts of the Administration to let inspections proceed...
...comrades, and that of the Iraqi people, is noteworthy; but your anger and revolt are also great when the situation calls for it," Saddam said. "However, for every situation there is an answer, for every phase there is a certain behavior, and for every action there is a reaction." In other words, the time for challenging the inspectors might come later...
...Harvard student, you may be surprised at the phenomenon I have just described. If you are a Harvard student, your reaction is, perhaps, threefold...