Word: counter
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...trouble with this attitude is that it assumes the infallibility of a few experts who, once fed the proper information, will mechanically arrive at the correct decision 100 per cent of the time. Another problem with the attitude is that it runs counter to most notions of democracy. Sealing the public off from the facts on which the government bases its decisions must necessarily create an atmosphere of public sluggishness, and an automatic assumption that the leader's decisions are unfailingly correct...
Both Marjolin and Jacobsson believe that right action can counter a descending economic spiral. Jacobsson believes that the great task of his final year as IMF chief will be to persuade the governments of all industrial nations to adopt in concert policies to encourage business expansion-notably stepped-up government spending and easy-money interest rates. The Times of London last week voiced the fear that without such a coordinated drive, "the European economy may slow down at the same time as the American"-a coincidence of events that has not occurred since the Great Depression...
...Tiger's den. Colgate has been erratic, but even at its best it doesn't appear to be up to Princeton. The Tigers, with their many-splendored backfield, should be able to penetrate the Red Raiders end zone at will, and the Princeton line is capable of preventing any counter-raids...
Colonels' Corruption. Still, Nasution knows that after Sukarno's death there will be a major struggle between the Communists and the army. To counter the Reds' strength among the masses, Nasution has tried to make the army a political and social as well as a military force...
This remarkable finding, which runs directly counter to what every mother has ''known'' since babies were first fed a substitute for human breast milk, was reported last week by one of the most eminent of U.S. pediatricians, New York University's Dr. L. Emmett Holt Jr. Four years ago, Dr. John P. Gibson of Abilene, Texas, had come to a similar conclusion, from studying 150 normal, full-term babies. He got the idea from mothers who had forgotten to warm a bottle. Dr. Holt figured that he could put the idea to the acid test...