Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...investigative work, and with a minimum of effort becomes a renowned journalist. He is extraordinarily difficult to identify with, because we get little more than fleeting glimpses at what makes him tick. What could be a complex and moving figure is instead an empty observer who evokes little reaction...
More than 75 students staged a rally last May, demanding that the executive committee renew Cudjoe's contract and claiming that "ideological differences between Cudjoe and committee members hindered his chances for reappointment. Freeman denied that ideological considerations affected the final decision, but student reaction this fall will undoubtedly prove irate...
...particularly angered by Humanoids, and I asked an Orson Welles staff-member, who claimed to be soliciting feedback, why the film had been programmed. He seemed genuinely puzzled by my outrage, and pointed out that, in terms of audience reaction, it had been the most successful film of the marathon. "And the ending," he said. "Everybody loved the ending...
...travel is more freely allowed than elsewhere in the East bloc. János Kádár's government has no peer in public relations among its Eastern European friends; a recent round of price hikes was announced a year ahead of time to soften the reaction. An economic plan put into effect last year looks suspiciously like capitalism, with financial incentives and broad leeway for managers to hire, fire and set production goals. The government also winks at a booming underground economy. Although his economic growth record was lowest in the region last year...
...American consumer usually has a shrewd and speedy reaction to economic change, and right now he appears to be thinking that the bottom of the recession may have passed. It might be a while, however, before he starts consuming in earnest. Said Rudolph Glin, vice president of Milwaukee's Boston Store: "It's like clawing your way up a cliff with your fingernails. It is still tough to sell, but the consumer is motivated to buy if it is an item of real value." The American customer is currently digging out of debt and is very careful about...