Word: counter
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...last fifteen years a fundamental conflict of interest between this country and the Soviet Union has engendered an increasingly dangerous spiral of weapons development, threat and counter-threat, bluff and counter-bluff...
This is simply not true, and Rockefeller should realize that the shelter program, a contractor's dream, invites exactly the type of misbehavior that Carlino so plainly has exhibited. As Lane said in self-defense (for the counter-attack took its toll), the shelter bill was simply too important to be slammed on a legislator's desk for virtually automatic approval...
Following the probing harmonic and contrapuntal explorations of Gesualdo, the madrigals of Luca Merenzio sounded a bit parochial and stay-at-home. Yet his two villanellas for three voices offered a great and rarely heard texture: soprano, counter-tenor, and basso. (Counter-tenor Carlo Tosti's sense of humor was, incidentally, crucial for the success of several of the Banchieri and Marenzio madrigals...
...second lecture drew copiously from the experience of New York to illustrate how "the availability of alternate sovereignties, federal and state, competing and cooperating . . . enforces and augments the people's rights." Yet, he warned that "the local governments have no sovereignty' to counter-balance federal sovereignty nor the fiscal power to resist its blandishments...
Menon claims with some justice that India could not win a war with Red China, though it is a curious stance for a vain Defense Minister. But Menon's critics counter that defending Indian territory against further Red conquests need not lead to war. Trouble is that Menon has neglected to build up India's border defenses. While he and Nehru refuse to give details to Parliament, on the ground that such information would be useful to the Chinese, one fact is clear: north India's population centers are far closer to the frontier than Red China...