Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olin Mathieson, running counter to a downward trend among chemical companies, had a record 36% rise in earnings for the quarter to $16,600,000. Sales, said President Gordon Grand, were $284 million, or 11% higher than last year, because of "strong contributions from agricultural chemicals, copper-base alloys, Winchester-Western, Olinkraft forest products and from our Squibb division...
...only way loyalists of the Reading Dynamics enterprises can counter this evidence is by pointing to the small percentage of tuitions refunded. As the official pamphlet says, "The success of Reading Dynamics lies on its ability to teach successfully over 96 per cent of its pupils." This argument is valid only if there is a direct correlation between reading success and tuitions refunded. Unfortunately, there is an amazingly large gap between...
SUMMER has become a bad season for Chicago police. 1966 was no exception. The city was once again in the limelight as a center for violence and crime. A major Puerto Rican riot, a major Negro riot, open housing marches led by Martin Luther King, counter-demonstrations by George Lincoln Rockwell, and the Speck massacre: each crisis made the policeman's job more hectic and trying. But during the summer, the police faced another, less-noticed problem-the rise of the Mighty Blackstone Rangers, a well-organized, tightly - disciplined street gang, which, according to police statistics, is the toughest...
Galbraith also said that universities must give freedom even to those who would destroy it or assert "damaging nonsense." But he stressed that Universities must recognize their personal responsibility to counter such ideas...
...handing out the letter, the group -- a "family" of 15 or 20 people -- is trying to get the freshmen to take good trips," Calvert said. The letter is an effort to counter what its authors consider the detrimental statements issued by Monro and the UHS which Calvert believes "affect the quality of the trip," and tend to send the users to mental hospitals...