Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fears the unpredictable consequences of breaching what he calls nature's "evolutionary barrier" between different kinds of creatures-the genetic incompatibility that in most cases prevents one species from breeding with another. In the same vein, retired Columbia Biochemist Erwin Chargaff asks: "Have we the right to counteract, irreversibly, the evolutionary wisdom of millions of years in order to satisfy the ambition and the curiosity of a few scientists...
...administration has refused to accept its responsibility toward women and minorities in the Harvard community. Instead of taking the affirmative steps necessary to counteract a tradition which does not cater to our needs and interests, Harvard has maintained the unrealistically ideal assumption that every interest group is on equal social and financial footing here...
...century A.D. was in the graven-image business-attracting pilgrims to the shrines of some 300 local gods. The tortures, exiles and triumphs of the Prophet's followers are accompanied by much pacifistic blather-at least in the version for infidels. The intent is to counteract the Western belief that Islam is a faith that comes bearing only a sword. Whatever one thinks of all this, it sure slows the picture down...
Women's increasingly active involvement in the professions may counteract any negative feelings about Radcliffe's "loss of identity," Harding said...
...Roots, accompanies our cover story. Marmon, whose own roots were in the South, finds that he too has "rattling around in my head some near-biblical family stories told and retold by my grandmother." Like many white Southerners, Marmon chafed against the "distorting experience" of segregation and, to help counteract it, wrote his senior thesis at Princeton on the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s. Correspondent Edward Boyer, who sat in on the interview with Haley, felt a shock of recognition when he saw Roots on TV. Boyer's maternal grandparents were born slaves, and his grandfather had watched General...