Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...side, American Express enlisted the aid of the Lazard Frères investment banking firm, and Lazard in turn engaged Joseph Flom, a lawyer famed for his skill in fighting long delaying actions against takeovers and thus an expert on how to counteract such tactics. American Express further arranged $700 million in stand-by credits from major banks. It obviously does not need the money, but might prefer to borrow for the takeover rather than cash in some high-yielding securities...
...also said the University will try to counteract rising costs through its planned $250-million fund drive. In ten or 15 years, moreover, demographic trends indicate that the average family will have fewer children to send to college--a relief for those who want to send, their children to Harvard, Bok says...
Dudman, 60, and Becker, 31, were experienced reporters who had covered the Indochina war in both Viet Nam and Cambodia for extended periods. Their 1,000-mile trip through eleven of Cambodia's 19 provinces was clearly an attempt by the Cambodian regime to counteract its worldwide image as a merciless, anonymous and genocidal regime. That image has been fed by the accounts of postrevolutionary life given by thousands of refugees in neighboring Thailand and Viet Nam. Caldwell, a lecturer in Southeast Asian economic history at the University of London, accompanied the reporters as a sympathetic student of Cambodia...
...that he went to Jerusalem and to Camp David "to establish peace for the entire area." Despite such oft-repeated assertions, both radical and moderate Arabs are concerned that Sadat has, in effect, sold out to Israel. Last week 20 Arab governments assembled in Baghdad in an effort to counteract the impending Egyptian-Israeli settlement...
...between his two namesakes, John XXIII and Paul VI. As the plain cypress coffin was borne through the portals of the great basilica, the huge, tearful crowd standing in the rainswept square burst into applause. At the Requiem Mass that preceded the burial, it rained intermittently. As if to counteract the rain clouds, in his funeral address 85-year-old Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri compared Pope John Paul to "a meteor that unexpectedly lights up the heavens and then disappears, leaving us amazed and astonished ... One month was enough for him to win our hearts;... it is not the length which...