Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clay took Mildenberger lightly too. He had, Cassius admitted, made a few adjustments in his boxing style to counteract Mildenberger's lefthanded attack (he had twice lost to lefthanders as an amateur). "The way I figure it," said Clay, "it will take me about three rounds to figure out Mildenberger's southpaw style, and two or three more to finish him." As it turned out, it took Clay twelve rounds to finish the stubborn German...
...economic and industrial development and the problems of the ailing Latin American Free Trade Association (LAFTA). A LAFTA ministerial meeting is scheduled for Montevideo next December, and the five nations gathered in Bogotá-all small and relatively undiversified-could well be trying to organize a pressure group to counteract the larger individual power of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil. Predictably, the five denied any such intention. "We are not trying to create an economic bloc," Frei said. "We are only trying to start something which will spread through Latin America...
...Assassins made Cannabis known as a plant that inspired fierce courage. Baudelaire gave it credit for being a gateway to worlds of visionary delight. But the wretched people who brought it to us--people who had high rates of crime and insanity to begin with--used it only to counteract the misery of their lives. Perhaps marihuana has been judged guilty by association...
...been converted into a telephone order book for teenagers and the young families of today. There is new emphasis on the 50% of the population that is younger than 25." To attract younger shoppers, all three major catalogues now lead with sophisticated styles. To make their clothes "in," counteract the year's lead time they must contend with, and gain more of the market, Wards and Penney have signed up name designers. Wards (last year's total sales: $1.8 billion) has twelve international designers, among them Jacques Heim, Rudi Gernreich, Fabiani and Clodagh of Dublin. J. C. Penney...
...counteract the moves of the defenses, Cozza has tried a variety of formations, some with more success than others...