Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their attendance here, are intellectual, competitive, and highly motivated. The innate confidence they probably have may make them overlook the possible detrimental effects of living in a community that remains skewed towards men in everything from sheer-numbers to such separatist vestiges as finals clubs. Not that women should counteract this problem by becoming equally separatist, but they should not, either, yield to the habit that often prevails--studiously avoiding all activities lacking men or, at the very least, approaching them with severe apprehension...
NASA is pressing for a cure because SAS can disrupt short-term flights. As a temporary remedy, astronauts routinely take along pills containing a combination of scopolamine, a drug that blunts sensations, and dextroamphetamine, a stimulant to counteract scopolamine's dulling effects on the body and mind. When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination...
...bone marrow discovery could potentially help counteract auto-immune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis, researchers announced last week. The cancer gene discovery is still being researched, and will not be applied to cancer patients for many years. Other research projects currently underway at the institute include a study of sunlight's effect as a carcinogenic agent, and an inquiry into cell-growth control...
Reagan did say that he is prepared to advance new arms control proposals to the Soviets. But his periodic outbursts of hard-line language were enough to counteract any benefit his more peaceful statements might bring. The MX plan, said Reagan, "would require the Soviets to make costly new technical developments if they wish to even contemplate a surprise attack. Most of the Soviet countermeasures proposed are really no more than technical dreams on which no Soviet planner or politician would bet the face of his country...
...partly to counteract that impression that the board quickly pulled together preliminary figures for 1982, showing the role minority increases had played in the upswing, and held a third press conference, according to Robert G. Cameron, the board's executive director for research and development...