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Word: counteractions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...using force to prevent economic "strangulation" of the West by the oil producers. Algeria had proposed that OPEC members make a blunt pledge to impose another oil embargo if any member was attacked, but the final declaration merely noted that the cartel would take "immediate and effective measures to counteract such threats with a united response...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Searching for Stability | 3/17/1975 | See Source »

...rith, it was founded in 1913 to fight antiSemitism, mainly through continual monitoring and publicizing of evidence suggesting such sentiment. With a budget of $7.4 million and a staff of 300 people, it issues periodic public reports on trends in prejudice against Jews and tries to counteract such trends through community projects and legal action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A GUIDE TO THE GROUPS | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

...agruments, we believe have been adequately replied to by supporters of the UFW. But most recently attacks against the union have come from another sources: the Gallo Corporation itself. The E&J Gallo Winery the largest wine producer in the United States has mounted an enormous advertising capaign to counteract the boycott of Gallo products launched by its striking workers in 1973. The facts that Gallo presents, without substantiation, distort or ignore a number of important points that we feel should be made clear...

Author: By Carol Radway and Christopher Tilly, S | Title: Gallo Boycott: | 2/11/1975 | See Source »

...first time. They also permitted the development of a renin profile-a computer-aided analysis of the patient's hormonal output. There are patients with low renin levels who nonetheless have high blood pressure; excess of fluid is probably at the root of their problem. Diuretics counteract this tendency to store salt and fluids, thus lowering the blood pressure. Those with high renin levels can be best helped with renin inhibitors that will slow or even shut off production of the hormone. "Until we figured out just what renin did," says Laragh, "therapy was conducted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONQUERING THE QUIET KILLER | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...program department planned a series often-minute excerpts and summaries from Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago, the nightmare account of Soviet repression, to counteract Moscow's propaganda against the book. USIA ordered the project canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Muted Voice of America | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

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