Word: counteract
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...world have at some measure of long-term stability. Governments with fair administration, and yes, professionally trained armed forces, complete the equation. Lastly, if this plan does not do much to mitigate the United States’ image as omnipresent, then at the very least it will serve to counteract the association of Americans with strife and suffering...
Seltzer, a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and a team of legal scholars at the Internet clinics of Stanford University, the University of California-Berkeley and University of San Francisco, have started a website to counteract what they call the “chilling effects” of such scare tactics on free speech in cyberspace...
...Haven,” Feb. 20) did not grasp what I was trying to do in my testimony last week for Antonio C. Lasaga. There was considerable pressure to impose an unreasonably long prison sentence just because Lasaga was a distinguished professor at Yale. I was trying to counteract this. I was not successful. The State of Connecticut imposed a 20-year prison sentence. This was more than three times the sentence recently imposed in Massachusetts on a hockey dad for killing another hockey dad; it was twice as long as the sentence imposed on the former Rev. John...
Undergraduates with high enough soapboxes can counteract this tendency, Gomes thinks. He says that Summers’ goals of curbing grade inflation and decreasing the average age of Faculty members will only succeed with undergraduate support, which is a bold claim considering that students have little say in Harvard’s decision-making processes. But Gomes is sure that undergraduates are ultimately the most influential entity at the College. “The only way Summers has influence is by sucking up to students. And he’s doing it in such a conspicuous...
...plan is already widely supported by the community, indicating that Cambridge schools have ample room for improvement. Additionally, with the economy officially in a recession, now is the time to aggressively adopt measures that could counteract the ruinous effects of poverty. When the school committee reconvenes to vote, we urge them to approve the Cambridge Public Schools Controlled Choice Plan. As the city’s school board, it is their responsibility to ensure that no student is left behind...