Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Financial Aid office will seek a substantial increase in the number of freshman scholarships next year to counter the effect of the $240 tuition rise this September. The increase would be in addition to a necessary rise in financial aid for current scholarship holders...
Sonic Support. One of the psycho-metricist's more profound discoveries is that whenever a U.S. President has attempted to reassure businessmen about the state of the economy, he has succeeded only in impairing business confidence. To counter this "Inverse Insecurity Factor," as he calls it, McLandress devised the subliminal Sonic Support Apparatus Mark II, a miniaturized tape recorder designed to reassure the businessman by playing back the speeches of some hero figure to whom he turns mentally for inspiration in moments of insecurity. Among other "Sustaining Presences," the doctor found that Barry Goldwater, the Hoovers (J. Edgar...
...transfer of bright students of both races, even though this was only a token move toward a better balance. Parents took Willis to court, and last week the court ruled against him. Willis quit, claiming: "I can no longer discharge my responsibilities since the present practice is counter to all the fundamentals of good board-staff relationships in public education...
...President of the French Republic in 1948, pardoning him from a life sentence for repeated burglaries. "Jean Genet is a criminal and a pornographer," shrilled all the proper Parisiens, promptly seeing to it that even in Paris Genet's writings for years could be sold only under the counter. "Jean Genet is a saint," declares Jean-Paul...
...place was founded back in 1949 by Frank N. Cardullo, who noticed that the delicacy counter at his restaurant, the Wursthaus, was doing enough business to justify a major investment. Mr. Cardullo prides him-himself on the variety of his pates de foie gras and the quality of his fresh caviar...