Word: counteract
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...Penn, the athletic department made the recent cuts without prior students' or coaches' knowledge. Shocked and dismayed by the decimating announcement, Penn's athletic community scrambled to counteract the administration's edicts. The students succeeded in reinstating all sports but hockey; however, if the athletic department had consulted students and coaches beforehand, the negotiations might never have been necessary...
...Crimson raised its Ivy League record to 3-3 by rebounding from Sunday's loss to Columbia in New York City. Five Crimson hoopsters tallied in double figures to counteract an awesome performance by Cornell's 6-ft., 4-in. sophomore, Mike Davis, who pumped in 32 points in a losing effort...
...reason is the sluggishness of European and Japanese economies. The drop of the dollar has added another reason, by increasing the amount of dollars that multinationals must spend to build, buy or expand foreign factories. Weakened American investment abroad prolongs the global economic stagnation that the U.S. wants to counteract...
...statement recommended affirmative action as "a temporary device" to counteract the future "generation of officially sanctioned discrimination against minorities and women...
...thanks in large measure to Long. As for Carter's energy proposals, Long played a major role in gutting them in the Senate. Long probably will do the same in the four-week-old House-Senate conference committee on which he now serves--the President's intense efforts to counteract him notwithstanding. Whatever the conference does, gas-guzzling and well-head taxes are clearly dead...