Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Third World Coalition, a coalition of minority student groups seems worthy of serious consideration. Not only is it aimed at redressing an imbalance that may limit the perspectives offered by law professors, but its emphasis on paying special attention to minorities avoids the pitfalls of using reverse discrimination to counteract past injustices...
...lifeline to sanity and order, Kafka's life might have ended in suicide or madness. But Kafka's fiction, as Hayman consistently show, was an outlet for his self-destructive fantasies and aggressive impulses, an ongoing psychotherapy. If he could not solve his inner conflicts in real life nor counteract his growing feeling of isolation, then he could at least face them in literature, and perhaps gain the "illusion of having both under control." Hayman begins the book with a short chapter that underlines Kafka's skill at using his fiction both to confront and masochistically magnify his fallings...
...full-length recordings of books were available. Then, as now, only the blind and handicapped could borrow from the Library of Congress's several thousand titles on tape. But that year, Duvall Hecht, 51, an Orange County, Calif., commuter, helped found Books on Tape to counteract the cerebral atrophy he felt during his daily two hours at the wheel. Beginning with George Plimpton's Paper Lion on ten one-hour cassettes, Hecht's mail-order firm grew to represent 500 titles and adds 100 new works each year. Although the cassettes can be purchased, most...
...REALLY KNOWS what prompted Bok to address the first time in more than a year. What is clear is that Bok called upon the masters to counteract recent lapses in student behavior in the Houses. Though he made no specific recommendations, Bok singled out incidents of racial tension, harassment of gay students, disrespect for property, and lack of consideration for neighbors as increasing problems. Bok's talk impressed the masters. The president, they said later, seemed unusually troubled by the perceived rash of "inconsiderate" behavior...
...hold the remains of the tablets of Moses and possessing an awesome power. The year is 1936, and the U.S. government has learned that Hitler, a fanatic about the occult, has a team of storm troopers led by the opportunistic French archeologist Belloq, searching for the Ark. To counteract this threat, the government employs Indiana Jones, an improbably handsome archeology teacher and part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty much irrelevant as far as plot goes. Suffice it to say Jones travels halfway around the world, through Nepal, Egyptian...