Word: counteract
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What are the advantages of grade inflation? Apart from the gratitude that many students will feel towards the phenomenon when it comes time for interviews and applications, grade inflation serves to counteract the capricious and arbitrary nature of some of our larger classes here Harvard. As the staff editorials on this page in the past week have made abundantly clear, students resent the Core program. This resentment is not based on the desire to reduce our graduation requirements, but rather on a dissatisfaction with Core classes' large lecture format. The great advantage of replacing the Core program with a distribution...
Advocates of the initiatives say that colleges can counteract binge drinking by displaying signs informing students that most people party responsibly, drinking only a couple of beers per night...
...genomic medicine, this halting, inefficient approach should give way to something much more rational and systematic. Doctors will treat diseases like cancer and diabetes before the symptoms even begin, using medications that boost or counteract the effects of individual proteins with exquisite precision, attacking sick cells while leaving healthy cells alone, and they will know right from the start how to select the best medicine to suit each patient...
Harvard was prepared to counteract this strategy, though, as Clemente launched a long pass court immediately as Gellert sprinted down the court. The "touchdown" pass hit Gellert in stride and the junior guard converted the easy lay-up for a 57-53 lead...
Election after American election using the current procedures has been fraught with unnumbered acts of voter fraud and ballot stuffing, which such an electronic system would effectively counteract, if not prevent entirely...