Word: counteract
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...chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, a California semiconductor company, complain that Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (Mill) encourages the formation of cartels and also targets promising industries for special research grants. Some economists, businessmen and politicians are calling for a U.S. industrial policy to counteract Japan's government planning...
...nation. He is now failing because those answers were only temporary pain-killers for a structural illness. Now, some of Reagan's more popular critics are running down the same path, courting disaster by proposing alluring but irrelevant cures as simplistic as the policies they are meant to counteract...
...goals, to get a sense of how they can combat sexism at this institution, when they're forced to spend so much of their time struggling to live up to that Harvard stereotype. It's a spectre hovering before our eyes, and none of us can fulfill it or counteract...
...People Magazine schemed to scoop her SAT scores. And this fall, as the coyly sized up the Ivy League, no passing reaction from Brooke or her indefatigable mother Teri escaped the headlines. Her decision that Princeton was the university probably boosted that select institution's popularity rating enough to counteract the loss of an entire academic major and long-standing image difficulties on campus housing policy, keeping the application numbers sky-high...
...Communist Party in Poland has begun a propaganda attack to counteract what one official called the "ideological alienation" of university students and other young people...