Word: counter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
University officials counter the report’s provisions are quite substantial, and are being implemented...
...descended upon unarmed peasants in southern China, opened fire and killed two farmers and wounded at least 18 others. The farmers had gathered peacefully to protest city and township corruption. Then, on Wednesday, a Beijing factory worker named Chi Shouzhu was arrested as a pro-democracy “counter-revolutionary.” He will be imprisoned not for inciting pro-democracy demonstrations—not even for promoting democracy—but for printing out information from a pro-democracy website on a friend’s computer...
...Over the course of the past two days, hundreds of students, faculty, staff, politicians, clergy and union leaders have participated in the PSLM protest (News, “Sit-In Draws Counter-Protest But No Talks,” April 20). While the counter-protest was short-lived and had low turn-out, Thursday’s day’s major events—a noon rally, a panel of speakers and a vigil—each lasted over an hour and drew large crowds. Your coverage April 20 simply did not discuss the most significant events...
That same year Waddle married Jill Huntington, whom he had met at a cosmetics counter in Silverdale, Wash. She provided the unquestioning devotion he had been seeking all his life. "She loves me unconditionally, although for the longest time I didn't appreciate that," says Waddle. "This tragedy has done one good thing--it has strengthened our bonds, when in other marriages it could have weakened them." They have one daughter, Ashley...
...America has the fittest people in the world, and the most obese. Yoga, typically, is practiced by the fit. Exercise, the care and feeding of body and possibly mind, is their second career. The folks in urgent need of yoga are the ones who are at the fast-food counter getting their fries supersize; who would rather take a pill than devote a dozen hours a week to yoga; for whom meditation is staring glassily at six hours of football each Sunday; and who might go under the surgeon's knife more readily than they would ingest anything more Indian...