Word: counter
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Only obliquely does the Committee suggest the direction in which Harvard should be channeling its resources. One significant recommendation asks the University to budget money "to redress in part the vast imbalance in the availability of outside research funds." "I wouldn't say we should be simply counter-cyclical," Dunlop said Monday, but clearly this clause is an attempt to protect the Humanities at a time when federal funds and foundation money are flowing into the Natural and Social Sciences. "We cannot change the world in five seconds," Dunlop said, "but we may set precedents which others will choose...
...REAL danger spot in Eastern Europe these days is not Czechoslovakia but Poland, where the Bureaucrats are counter-attacking moves that so far have remained almost exclusively on a cultural plane. These Bureaucrats are trying to ride the wave of nationalism but deny the liberalization that may have originally produced it. This is the meaning behind the anti-Semitic themes now being sounded in Poland...
Adequate security guarantees is by far the biggest issue. The United States and the Soviet Union have pledged to "act immediately through the Security Council to take necessary measures to counter aggression." This is a very vague and unimpressive guarantee at best. Brazilian Foreign Minister Jose de Magalahes Pinto claims that non-nuclear states who renounce the possession of nuclear weapons are at least entitled to "a formal obligation on the part of nuclear weapons states not to employ their nuclear weapons against the signatories...
...parleys do not collapse in the early stages, the next thorny point is likely to be a demand by Hanoi that the National Liberation Front be admitted to the talks. The U.S will counter with a demand for full representation of the Saigon government. That could take more weeks and months?particularly since the N.L.F. denies the legitimacy of the government of South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, and Thieu vows that he will not sit down with the insurgents...
Dean Glimp said yesterday that "the university has no magic wand it can wave to counter-act the use of force...