Word: counteract
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Phillips Brooks House is not the White House: No matter how many cases the Small Claims Advisory Service takes on, it couldn't counteract another 75% cut in the Legal Services budget from the GOP Congress, nor could ExperiMentors train a new generation of scientists from schools with inadequate lab equipment. A personal commitment to the environment won't veto laws drafted by industry lobbyists; only a presidential commitment can do that. Government doesn't need to be the only solution, but it must be part of the solution--or we will quickly find it, as the saying goes...
Even so, researchers have begun using genome segments made public by federal scientists. Researchers at Glaxo Wellcome, the British pharmaceutical giant, have identified groups of genes involved in Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, psoriasis and migraine, and are working on drugs to counteract them...
These are grim images - but probably no more than what's needed to counteract a small but vocal group who take issue with the census not because it asks those personal questions about indoor plumbing but because it dares go where few American institutions have the chutzpah to go. Fierce resistance has risen from various populations regarding the census's questions about race - always a prickly issue in America - now framed in a manner that highlights our particularly schizophrenic attitudes about skin color...
...core group of students on campus have set out to counteract what they see as difficulties facing women at Harvard. The Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), the Women's Leadership Project (WLP) and the Coalition Against Sexual Violence have been some of the most vocal supporters of women's issues...
...Part of being in a partnership is trying to counteract each other's weaknesses," she said...