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The Deccan Chronicle of India said the United States has overreacted to India's nuclear tests with a punishment that is not merely heavy but also "rather vengeful."
Keyes overreacted, but his answer illustrated three lessons.
Dunlap, though, insists that the market has overreacted to the bad news and is missing the real story.
But this is one case where it wasn't the brokerage houses that overreacted, even if a couple of analysts did trim their estimates for next year.
Seattleites debated whether the police: 1) were ill-prepared, outnumbered, and too accommodating of demonstrations; 2) overreacted by using riot tactics on peaceful protesters; or 3) were stuck in a "Catch-22."