Word: counteraction
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Undergraduates with high enough soapboxes can counteract this tendency, Gomes thinks. He says that Summers’ goals of curbing grade inflation and decreasing the average age of Faculty members will only succeed with undergraduate support, which is a bold claim considering that students have little say in Harvard’s decision-making processes. But Gomes is sure that undergraduates are ultimately the most influential entity at the College. “The only way Summers has influence is by sucking up to students. And he’s doing it in such a conspicuous...
...plan is already widely supported by the community, indicating that Cambridge schools have ample room for improvement. Additionally, with the economy officially in a recession, now is the time to aggressively adopt measures that could counteract the ruinous effects of poverty. When the school committee reconvenes to vote, we urge them to approve the Cambridge Public Schools Controlled Choice Plan. As the city’s school board, it is their responsibility to ensure that no student is left behind...
...support patriotism to the extent that it illustrates a love for one’s country. The manner in which the Rally for Patriotism was proposed to me by those organizing it implied that the rally was held to counteract the earlier peace rally and had no purpose other than to say that the peace rally was wrong...
Trager said his goal in engineering the rally was to counteract what he views as “distaste of the government throughout the campus” and an “innappropriate distrust and second-guessing of our government at this present time...
...facing a tough time passing his reform agenda through a hostile legislature. Does the ?special relationship' he's cultivating with President Bush counteract his domestic political weakness...