Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...causes. In Nixon's case, it was thought that he was suffering a serious loss of blood. Bleeding can occur in any operation when the patient has been treated with anticoagulant drugs and thus has dangerously reduced clotting factors in his blood. Before operating, most surgeons try to counteract the effects of the anticoagulants to restore the patient's clotting factors...
...depending upon the degree to which the student body is expendable to the state. The administration of Southern University consistently lied to black students in responding to demands for more black control of college programs; when they ran out of lies, they used guns to counteract increasing student unity. The administration of Harvard University has lied to its black students, also, as the recent betrayal of agreements for student and Afro-American Studies Department input into the DuBois Institute by the administration and its black lackeys illustrates, and it will take whatever other action it deems necessary to "keep...
...Guinea, Jamaica and Yugoslavia, recently formed the International Bauxite Association to prop up prices for that ore, which is used to make aluminum. Most commodity producers, however, lack the religious, ethnic and cultural unity of the Arab oil producers, and it remains to be seen whether their efforts can counteract the law of supply and demand, which is now pushing prices down...
...used to believe that the self-parodying ineptness of films like this one was the antidote supplied by thoughtful producers to counteract their poisonous ideas. But the appalling example of Walking Tall is still before us. At least one preview audience actually cheered this urban variant on that rube farce. So let the matter be stated as forcefully as possible: Death Wish is a meretricious film-in its curious lack of feeling even for innocent victims of crime, in its hysterical exaggerations of an undeniable problem, and especially in its brazen endorsement of violence as a solution to violence...
After graduating in 1957 from Wheaton (Ill.) College and being ordained by the conservative, independent La Grange Bible Church, Gothard worked with teen-agers in suburban churches as well as youth gangs in Chicago. Both groups were similarly disturbed, he decided, and their family life was to blame. To counteract their personal problems, he developed a set of absolute "principles," like his theory about God's chain of command...