Word: counteractions
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...scored with the Japanese public by quickly meting out tough economic punishment to North Korea, banning its imports and barring its ships from Japanese ports, ahead of sweeping sanctions imposed by the United Nations Security Council last week. In addition, to counteract fears that Pyongyang's nuclear capabilities could touch off a regional arms race, Abe made it clear that Japan had no intention of developing nuclear weapons?thus drawing Japan closer to its key ally and military protector, the U.S., while reassuring China that North Asia's balance of power was unchanged...
...whites, according to research by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Urban Institute. Brown was decided more than 50 years ago, but cities like Louisville and Boston were still rioting over busing plans in the 1970s. And is two generations really long enough to counteract 300 prior years of institutionalized inequity...
...these drugs are still conspicuously absent from the African interior. About 500,000 Africans receive the antiretroviral medications they seek, but 4.7 million still need them. Our current efforts are simply insufficient. It is not enough to share precious intellectual property rights. We need to be willing to aggressively counteract AIDS with all the ammunition our trillion-dollar pharmaceuticals can provide.Our world is one divided and sub-divided by arbitrary lines drawn in the sand. These lines make it easy for us to sleep at night, far from the Central Hospital, where patients rot in their own filth...
...bride has a poor relationship with her father, her fate's not sealed either. Among those women, those who've created a strong bond with the groom's family counteract their risk...
...much a tribute to the tactical skill of New Right organizers who have mobilized the support of fundamentalists and other right-leaning, formerly apolitical groups through the use of national computer address banks. The answer for 1984 is simple: the left must organize itself to counteract this new force, using similar computerized-mailing tactics if necessary. More important, liberals who feel the nation has abandoned them should look at the history of the election itself and its candidates before they leave the country. The 1980 presidential election cannot truly be called a defeat for liberalism because no liberal...