Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Reaction to the Federal Reserve's action was strong. Retailers complained that the new rules would torpedo Christmas spending, if controls last that long, because credit limits were set in sales-slow March. They also questioned how they would sort out major purchases, like refrigerators, which are exempted from the regulations, from less expensive credit-restricted items, like fancy leather goods. Economists estimate that the card crackdown would have a measurable, if minor, impact on inflation. Consumers, in any case, will be forced to think twice about spending their plastic money, and banks and retailers now have an excuse...
Immediate reaction to the program Tom politicians, businessmen and economists was cautiously reserved. Only the most partisan conservatives denounced it wholeheartedly, and even fewer people gave it warm praise. Generally, Carter got high marks for having realized the deadly seriousness of inflation and having started...
Quickly assembled committees, faculty seminars and plans for short-term training sessions are the most obvious evidence of the Ed School's reaction to the findings of a major self-evaluative study completed in December under the direction of Roland S. Barth, a lecturer at the school. Paul N. Ylvisaker, dean of the Ed School, believes that this reaction indicates a shift away from a "dangerously negative posture, an attitude of neo-conservatism," which had blurred educators' aims during the last fifteen years. Ylvisaker commissioned the special study late last spring to examine the relationship between the Ed School...
...strain straddles the borderline area between the two, sometimes displaying characteristics of the tuberculoid, sometimes resembling the lepromatous. Because of the negative reaction she has to sulphone-based drugs, Li needs close supervision at the moment. Thus she lives in the modern infirmary rather than the somewhat dilapidated dormitories provided for more permanent residents...
...Someone with this disease, even if it's totally inactivated, cannot go out and look for a job. Not if he admits to having Hansen's Disease anyway. Employers are afraid to hire you because of the reaction of other employees...