Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Film Society. But if the number of societies cannot be reduced, financial pressures may force member of the council into present and ever narrowing range of films. And if its member societies hope to continue to develop, it will be up to the Council to find the means to counteract this pressure...
...hopes to have more contact with other unions, in order to counteract the "fuel energy conglomerate" with a "fuel energy workers conglomerate...
...generation which repeats the horrible mistakes of its forebears. Count me out of Mr. Nixon's New Majority of comfortable Americans who leave the poor, the deprived, the sick and the old to tend for themselves in his modern-day laissez-faire society. We must find a way to counteract through persuasion and unremitting pressure the perversions of logic and priority practiced by Mr. Nixon; in this way we can prevent another Nixon. And that will be our success...
...openly nervous about overextending their countries' contacts with the West. A Czechoslovak government spokesman told TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "In the aftermath of the security conference, we will have to take extra steps to prevent ideological diversion. It will be a great menace to us, and we must counteract it vigorously and vigilantly." In East Germany, even as the government was negotiating the inter-German treaty with Bonn last month, its police were installing deadly new electronic devices along the East-West barrier that would fire automatically at would-be escapees...
...went on to say that her major tasks for the future would be to help our students develop a strong sense of their own worth gain confidence in themselves as they master academic and social skills, and ultimately counteract the tendency to withdraw from the mainstream of thought and achievement in our society...