Word: counteract
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...Coach Bob Harrison plans to start his 'small team' in order to counteract Navy's conservative style with the fast break. Junior Dale Dover and sophomore Matt Bozek will be at the guards, while 6' reserve guard Joe Stanislaw plays forward...
...having its population jump between the peaks of the ground waves stirred up by China, a threatened nation could damp them out before they grew intense enough to cause damage. There is one catch: the target nation would, of course, be less populous than China. Thus, to effectively counteract the massive Chinese geophysical aggression, its people would have to jump from higher platforms...
...three later pictures, The Apartment (1960), Irma La Douce (1963), and The Fortune Cookie (1966), Wilder again provides nice sympathetic victims (Jack Lemmon in the first two, Ron Rich in the latter). But, perhaps to counteract this, he makes the victimizers increasingly grotesque. Walter Matthau's conniving lawyer Whiplash Willie in the recent Fortune Cookie is Wilder's most terrifying caricature of humanity. Matthau, constantly shifting his eyes trying to locate the quickest buck, fails to say one generous thing during the entire picture. The cruelties of this character, as you might expect, contrast sharply with the mild evils...
...Reserve chairman, who has a reason to favor continued stringency. Twice since 1966, Martin's board has made major errors in expanding the money supply too much and too soon. The Fed committed its worst error in mid-1968, when it increased the money supply by 14% to counteract the expected deflationary effects of the surtax. That action sharply accelerated the current inflation. Martin now wants to restore his reputation as a sound-money man by making sure that inflation is effectively constrained during his last few weeks in office...
...hector the young; law officers should be given facts to set against their irrational feelings. "Disgust and anxiety interfere with an objective understanding of the problem, and could be prevented or alleviated if valid information about homosexuality were disseminated," the report says. Among the homosexuals, "it is important to counteract the prevalent sense of hopelessness and inevitability...