Word: counteracting
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Commercial interests have already moved to counteract these trends in Cambridge. They have a program, and their efforts are now directed at inducing residents and industry to join them in the fight for a better community...
...even these changes cannot completely counteract the overall metropolitan pattern. Most people do not want to live in a slum even when their own home is a palace. The only alternative is to attack the existing pattern, trying to develop a new pattern through Urban Renewal...
...these pleasant figures last week, Dwight Eisenhower and his budgetmakers turned to the future. What is the outlook for fiscal 1957, beginning next July 1? Defense spending, keystone of the whole budget structure, is expected to go up about $500 million. Despite some demands for an increase to counteract the Soviet Union's new economic warfare, foreign aid is expected to cost about the same ($2.7 billion), with some shifts in emphasis to meet the new Russian activity. Support for the farmer, expected to include an expensive new soil-bank plan, will cost more than it does in this...
...machine to live in," his followers have outdone themselves in paring down structures to their bare bones. While their efforts, seen from the outside, have often produced some handsome glass-walled slabs, the effect on the inside has too often been that of a streamlined, air-conditioned nightmare. To counteract these trends, a handful of modern architects have moved back towards rough tex tures and hand-worked surfaces to get away from the "over-calipered look...
...probably the reason for sophistication of the shrine they built at Stonehenge. The heavy stone lintels are not merely placed on top of the uprights. They are laboriously fitted The lintels are curved to fit the circles in which they lie, and their sides are in clined to counteract the foreshortening effect of perspective...