Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have encouraged young people around the nation to channel their career interests during years that were supposed to be reserved for "liberal arts" education. Harvard's ostensible answer to that squeeze produces only faceless programs like the Core Curriculum. On a personal travel, the University has done nothing to counteract student's increasing introspection, which manifests itself in cutthroat pre-professionalism and general political apathy of the past several years. By example, Harvard has encouraged selfishness...
...British Catholic hierarchy was glum about the likelihood of a papal visit at a time of war, but a great deal was at stake. Very quickly, the British hierarchy launched a shuttle diplomacy effort designed to counteract the advice it knew the Pope was receiving from the ever cautious Curia. Archbishops Thomas Winning of Glasgow and Derek Worlock of Liverpool flew to Rome and at a hastily arranged luncheon in the Pope's private apartments, made a carefully prepared appeal, but it was soon clear that they were preaching to the converted. "I am convinced myself," the Pope said...
Supporters said the bill, sponsored by Cambridge State Senator George Bachrach, was introduced to counteract "the legal roadblock" to action by local governments posed by state provisions that override some laws developed by municipalities...
...Alumni Committee to Support Afro-American Studies was started last fall to counteract what it considers a lack of University support for the department. Dayna L. Cunnigham '81, one of the organizers of the committee, said yesterday. She noted that the group already has more than 30 members and is growing rapidly. Because of a policy of "deliberate neglect and abuse by the College" the department will require" hard work by students and alumni to maintain it," she added...
...movie's stronger elements fail too to counteract the weakness of characters and plot The camera with in The Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man emerges as surprisingly playful as Carlo Di Palma's lens follows Primo's bicycle through a car windshield and later lingers on the ham-eating lips of the wealthy. The ideas, it seems, is to play with the viewer's perceptions of really, making him connection through cinematography of his own limited vision But where the plot should continue this theme and reinforce it, confusion wells up instead. Cancelling any possible effectiveness...