Word: counteract
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...disappointment your article "Who Left the Door Open?" The story failed to inform your readers of significant efforts by more than 34,000 DHS employees who work tirelessly every day to enforce our nation's immigration laws. In the past 18 months, the government has implemented more measures to counteract illegal immigration than in the past 10 years combined. Better use of technology, thousands of added border enforcement personnel and newly created partnerships with local law enforcement are all part of this effort. Your article failed to acknowledge any of the progress that has been made on these important issues...
...lead of Norway and Sweden, which have banned advertising aimed at children, or Australia, Italy and New Zealand, which have statutory guidelines that limit it. The next best thing, says Nestle, would be a federally mandated campaign of public-service ads that would promote healthy eating and help counteract the effects of junk-food ads. This sort of counterprogramming is exactly what the government required in the late 1960s, before smoking ads were banned from TV. Cigarette use dropped during all four years that the antismoking...
Credit Fukui's success to unconventional thinking. His predecessor, Masaru Hayami, frequently claimed there was little he could do to stoke Japan's economic fires after he lowered interest rates to zero. But Fukui has boldly set out a series of unorthodox monetary-easing programs designed to counteract the country's crippling six-year bout of deflation, flooding the nation with cash. "Fukui has been activist and interventionist," says Shuji Shirota, an economist at the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein investment bank in Tokyo. Fukui's efforts are having an impact: consumer-price deflation slowed to 0.3% last year, compared with...
...megapixel camera ($600), a superzoom still camera that mimics camcorders in its ability to close in on shots. Its 12X-optical-zoom Leica lens lets you capture clearly the writing on the spine of a paperback 9 m away. Too much zoom can sometimes result in shaky pictures. To counteract that, Panasonic integrated an optical image stabilizer, technology commonly found only in camcorders. Stabilizer or no, it's still a challenge to shoot at great distances. That's why, for anyone interested in the FZ10, the best accessory would be a tripod...
...even if the calendar were rearranged to allow for finals before winter break in an effort to simplify student life, as now seems likely, a J-Term would only counteract any benefit by heaping on the additional stress—for both students and instructors—of planning for and taking additional classes. For most students, managing eight classes is hard enough; adding a ninth class in a 4-1-4 schedule would be too much. If the J-Term were structured so as to allow for the opportunity to do research or to study abroad, it would provide...