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She was the opposite of everything she should have been -- a positive pole in a negative home, a living reaction of warmth and kindness to the harsh reality of her father.
Almost inevitably, the first result of this technological revolution was a reaction against the methods and in many cases the conclusions of the Oxford school of Stubbs, Freeman and ( particularly ) Green regarding the nature of the Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain.
Even before the century was out the tide of reaction had set in.
The reaction of certain City Council members to California's newest anti-secrecy laws was as dismaying as it was disappointing.
Argon was used as a blowing gas to exclude any effects of dissociation or chemical reaction.
Despite extensive attempts to obtain highly pure reagents, serious difficulty was experienced in obtaining reproducible rates of reaction.
The required amount of carbon tetrachloride was distilled into a series of reaction cells on a manifold on a vacuum line.
The contents of the manifold for liquid phase experiments were then mixed by shaking, redistributed to the reaction tubes, frozen down, and each tube was then sealed off.
The light was filtered by the soft glass window of the thermostat thus ensuring that only light absorbed by the chlorine and not by the carbon tetrachloride could enter the reaction cell.
In the liquid phase runs the amount of carbon tetrachloride in each reaction tube was determined by weighing the tube before opening and weighing the fragments after emptying.
Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.
No detectable reaction was found at room temperature for reaction mixtures allowed to stand up to 5 hours.
The improvement was most noticeable in the greater consistency among reaction cells prepared as a group on the same manifold.
By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.
It was possible to make estimates of the quantum yield by observing the extent of reduction of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for a known time in a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions based on the differences in the absorption spectra of uranyl oxalate and of chlorine, and considering the spectral distribution of the light source.
-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

reaction and understandable
These criticisms were quickly taken up by others who were doubtless in part motivated by an understandable reaction to the previous hagiographical treatment of Sharp.
Part of this was an inevitable stylistic reaction to a contrapuntal idiom which had reached an extreme, and part of this was due to the specific dictates of the Council of Trent, which required that text be clearly understandable in sacred, especially liturgical, music – something which is next to impossible for a composer to achieve in a dense imitative texture.
McManaman told the media after one such game where he became victim of the " boo boys ", saying: " That's understandable, when I came off the other day I knew the reaction there was going to be.
Giurgiu's article was a mixed review: it argued that the reaction was understandable, but " regrettable ", because it carried the risk of glamorizing voter fatigue and depriving society of " a necessary burden.
He cannot honestly expect me to believe this nonsense .” This is an understandable reaction.
During his trial powerful family connections worked on his behalf, and he later benefited from the Christian family's generally fruitful efforts to demean Bligh's character and present the mutiny as an understandable reaction to an unbearable tyranny.

reaction and program
P. J. Plauger, an early adopter of structured programming, described his reaction to the structured program theorem:
He suffered an adverse reaction to his first treatment, but continued the program after a period of rest.
While in Cutchogue on August 2, 1939, pipe-smoking Einstein was visited by fellow Jewish physicists from Hungary Leo Szilard ( who had produced a nuclear chain reaction in a laboratory at Columbia University ) and Eugene Wigner ( who both had been put up to it by Niels Bohr, and found his house after asking directions from a 7-year-old boy on the street ), and signed the famous July 16 Letter to President Roosevelt, alerting him to the new developments in nuclear physics and hinting that the Germans might be working on an atomic bomb, urging him to launch his own program.
The IAO began funding research and development of the Total Information Awareness ( TIA ) Program in February 2003 but renamed the program the Terrorism Information Awareness Program in May that year after an adverse media reaction to the program's implications for public surveillance.
The NCAHF advocates regulations for a special OTC category called " Traditional Herbal Remedies " ( THRs ) with an adverse reaction surveillance program, product batches marked for identification and tracking, package label warnings about proposed dangers of self-treatment, oversight requirements from outside of the herbal industry, and strong penalties for unapproved changes in herbal product formulations.
The Sputnik crisis was the American reaction to the success of the Sputnik program.
Lance Hill offers Hoover ’ s reaction, which was sent to the field offices of the Bureau in Louisiana: “ Because of the potential for violence indicated, you are instructed to immediately initiate an investigation of the DDJ for Defense and Justice .” As was eventually exposed in the late 1970s, under its COINTELPRO program, the FBI was involved in many illegal activities to spy on and undermine organizations it deemed “ a threat to the American way ”.
At the end of the program, the final, serious, fully edited version of the " screen test " of each of the two contestants would be played, with audience reaction determining the winner, who would receive a trip to Hollywood and a real screen test for a motion picture.
Turn-On received such negative reaction that several ABC affiliates, TV station WEWS in Conway's hometown of Cleveland, refused to return to the program after the first commercial break, and WEWS management sent an angrily worded telegram to the network's headquarters.
She sang with Paul Whiteman's band from 1929 to 1933 ( Whiteman had a popular radio program and when Bailey debuted with her version of " Moaning Low " in 1929, public reaction was immediate, although she did not start recording with Whiteman until late 1931 ).
CBS scheduled Norman Corwin's Words Without Music, the first usage of a writer's name in a program title ; the series included two of his more famous works, The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, a fantasy in rhyme, and They Fly Through The Air, an impassioned reaction to the Spanish Civil War.
In reaction, the WJC published a comment which said: " The truth is that what stands in the way of aid to the Jews in Europe by the United Nations is not that such a program is dangerous, but simple lack of will to go to any trouble on their behalf.
The program was later renamed " Terrorism Information Awareness ", after a negative public reaction.
The program of deregulation and privatization pursued by President Carlos Menem in reaction to the country's socio-economic crisis of 1989 led to the decentralization of the Argentine secondary school system, whereby, from 1992 onwards, the schools ' administration and funding became a provincial responsibility.
The program was a reaction to American plans to fly Europeans on space shuttle missions.
-Hidden camera program featuring artificial situations in public and social settings designed to gauge the reaction ( or lack thereof ) of regular citizens.
Quinnipiac was conceived in reaction to Northeastern University's abandonment of its New Haven, Connecticut program at the onset of the Great Depression.
In reaction to the toxic outbreaks, six states along the US east coast have initiated a monitoring program to allow for rapid response in the case of new outbreaks and to better understand the factors involved in Pfiesteria toxicity and outbreaks.
* 2000: George Dohrmann, Saint Paul Pioneer Press, for his determined reporting, despite negative reader reaction, that revealed academic fraud in the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota.
While not a cure, this program enables food allergic children and adults to consume foods that they were allergic to previously, without any allergic reaction.
The 25-point Program was a German adaptation — by Anton Drexler, Adolf Hitler, Gottfried Feder, and Dietrich Eckart — of Rudolf Jung ’ s Austro – Bohemian program ; unlike the Austrians, the Germans did not claim to being either liberal or democratic, and opposed neither political reaction nor the aristocracy, yet advocated democratic institutions ( i. e. the German central parliament ) and voting rights solely for Germans — implying that a Nazi Government would retain popular suffrage.
" Herridge warns that unless the party adopted a reform program it would die and lamented the loss of his brother-in-law as party leader due to " the powers of reaction, and the stirring up of racial and religious strife.
The program " summed up the foreign reaction to such events as the Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam War, along with thousands of other events that have shaped the decade of the sixties.
In September 1972, the program returned as The Sandy Duncan Show, now with a revised format and new writers ; it also had a new timeslot of Sunday nights at 8: 30 P. M. Critical reaction to the show was similar to that for Funny Face, but without the strong Saturday night lead-in of All in the Family, the ratings sank.
The program is open to any incoming first year student and can supplement any major by engaging the student in reflection, reaction and adjustment of her / his personal and educational and career goals.

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