Word: counteract
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...most far-reaching developments will be the discovery of the genes that cause us to age. Once we understand those genes, we will be able to counteract them. Then we will slow down the aging process dramatically. My great-grandchildren might live to 150 and not look very...
...Dispute had only a one-night run; Marivaux has languished in obscurity for some two hundred years since. While critics generally acknowledged the characters’ witty dialogue, they have dismissed Marivaux’s works as light, fluffy and superficial—a perception which Bogart hopes to counteract...
What's going on? Several things at once, I suspect. At a hormonal level, studies have shown that meditation can counteract the fight-or-flight response that floods the body with the stress hormone cortisol and that also shuts down the parasympathetic system, which normally restores order after the alert is over. At a molecular level, meditation slows metabolism in red blood cells and suppresses the production of cytokines--proteins associated with the kind of heightened immune response often seen in stressed-out subjects such as students taking exams...
...Christmas in January President George W. Bush proposed an audacious tax-cut program - one he hopes will jump-start the sputtering U.S. economy. The plan, which would eliminates taxes on corporate dividends, delighted Wall Street but led Democrats to charge that Bush was merely making the rich richer. To counteract that criticism, the package also includes a rise in child and married-couples tax allowances. In addition, tax-rate cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 would be introduced immediately. "Our first challenge is to allow Americans to keep more of their money so they can spend and save and invest...
...keys to Harvard’s turnaround was that it started to play a small possession game in the second half. Michigan State was putting numbers on the ball when Harvard had possession. The Crimson was able to counteract that by ensuring its other players weren’t playing way above the ball...