Word: counteractions
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...making this requires more than the constructnon of libraries and the endowment of chairs in which scholars can sit. These things may promote scholarship, but scholarship filters into culture far too slowly to counteract the TV and the comic strip. More direct influence is needed. This influence is now called a liberal education...
...looks upon my rotund figure with abhorrence . . . What one can see of her under the .mask of chemical cosmetics seems muddy . . . Her skin is wrinkled . . . neck is unsightly and flabby . . . hips big in contrast to skinny toothpick legs . . . She has to take Epsom salts for her bowels . . . barbiturates to counteract the effect of coffee and to allow her to sleep." Dr. Lee, a onetime stammerer, states: "People have asked me who psychoanalyzed me out of stammering, and [they] find it hard to accept my answer. I was not psychoanalyzed. I just...
...Fire. Prices shot up. Olive oil, the staple of Spanish cooking, was raised another 11% last week. Gasoline jumped by a comparable amount. Since Spain's main distribution system depends heavily on trucks, the raise would soon be felt throughout the whole economy. In an effort to counteract inflation with increased productivity, the government decreed, on Christmas Day, that workers would no longer enjoy the state-assured job security that was one of the few blessings they had enjoyed under Franco. Henceforth, businessmen would be free to fire superfluous, incompetent or dishonest workers...
What is needed, businessmen say, is a completely new approach to depreciation. One suggestion is to base all depreciation allowances on replacement instead of original costs, thus counteract the effects of rising prices...
Conant discussed the idea again, before the Harvard Club of New York the same month that his original proposal appeared. Again he emphasized the importance of the inter-departmental, intellectual cross-fertilization, of getting "university-minded men" to help counteract the divisive effect of Harvard's size, of commissioning "outstanding scholars who would be free to roam about the entire university...