Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discussions. If it were well-known, student protest would be much more dangerous. When they do discuss financial decisions, administrators cherish the impression that policy decisions are dictated by economic necessity. Actually, the policy decisions are made, then the financial criteria are set up accordingly. For instance, administrators usually counter the arguments of reformers by claiming that this or that change "would be too expensive." Thus, we must raise tuition, but, they say, we "can't afford" to raise scholarships. Or, we can't invest part of the endowment in Roxbury because "we can't afford to lose all that...
...this time, another portly type had materialized from behind that damn counter. A different approach: fatherly. He came up and, emphasizing his points with pats on the shoulder, issued the ultimate rebuttal. "Son, there are ten thousand every year who don't get their bill. So the Commonwealth passed a law requiring everyone to come in and ask for his bill. So you've got no legal leg to stand on. And if you don't pay, you can never register a vehicle here again...
Marshaling Money. One way the government hopes to counter the problem is by increasing Australian capital available for new investments. It recently started the Australian Resources Development Bank, a semigovernmental institution that marshals local funds and directs them to new projects. In its biggest project so far, the resources bank helped the Australian backers of the Mount Newman iron mines raise development money. Now some federal officials would like to establish a similar organization that would borrow funds outside Australia on behalf of Australian investment. For his part, Gorton has so far not taken threatened legislative steps to provide...
...counter this, Harvard may send fullback Gus Crim into the line early in the game, perhaps using halfbacks Vic Gatto and Ray Hornblower on similar quick openers to open up the outside for their sweeps...
...Counter to Leonidik is Marat, the impetuous dreamer who achieves his goals of becoming war hero and bridge builder, but forgets to find love along the way. In this role, Michael Sacks captures the character's lust for action in the first two acts, but let's down a little in the third. He doesn't quite get at Marat's feeling of emptiness in spite of success, and tends to substitute volume for incisive characterization...