Word: counteractions
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...shoe on the other foot, let us suppose that it became the policy of the Soviet to denounce as threats to her security, and threaten to counteract with troops and cash, all capitalist political and economic maneuvers occurring in the Western Hemisphere. Would not our cumulative rage soon border on national apoplexy, and justifiably...
...Italian lira are skidding. If the pegged price is not changed to match the fall in real value (France refused to do so during the war), tourists will find their U.S. dollars bringing less and less unless they patronize the black market. Reason: prices will go up to counteract the fall in value of local currency. Only in Switzerland will the tourist escape that danger. But there he may have to face another which will have the same effect. There was gossip that Switzerland would revalue its franc, raising it from 23.40 U.S. cents to 30 cents. This would automatically...
City College's President Harry N. Wright, a mild-mannered, meticulous Quaker who loves problems, never runs short of them. Examples: cramming the overgrown student body into buildings designed for half the present enrollment; trying to counteract the slanders and slights that City College sometimes receives because of its 85% Jewish student body...
...atmosphere. Dr. Hutcheson's solution: a tiny radio in the nose of the rocket. Working like the proximity fuses in antiaircraft shells, it would detect the approach of the moon's surface and fire "braking rockets" at the proper distance. Shooting their power forward, they would counteract the moon's gravitational pull (one-sixth as strong as the earth's), and allow the whole apparatus to make a sufficiently gentle landing...
...told radio officials . . . my application for broadcasting time . . . was made solely from my desire to counteract, to some extent, the veritable flood of religious propaganda to which, for the last 15 years, the American people have been subjected...