Word: counteractions
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Everyone at Harvard should build friendships to counteract racial and ethnic tensions, President Neil L. Rudenstine told more than 15,000 students, alumni and parents gathered at Harvard University's 341st Commencement...
...problem with sorting out these influences is that they interact in complex ways and may, to some extent, cancel each other out. Pinatubo's cooling effects could counteract the warming caused by greenhouse gases, at least over the short term. At the same time, El Nino's warming influence seems to have suppressed the early cooling effects of Pinatubo's global haze...
...next afternoon it was a different man who received TIME for the magazine's third interview in five years. Gorbachev had clearly decided to use the session to counteract the widespread impression that his presidency was mortally wounded by what several of his advisers had earlier in the week called the "second coup...
Finally, Poreba's Big Mama is completely dominated by Big Daddy. Williams's script calls for a short, stout woman to play Big Mama, a necessity to counteract Big Daddy's imposing size. Poreba is miscast as Big Mama and cannot make her own presence felt on the stage...
Medical technology has prolonged our lives, but it cannot improve their quality, the argument continues. To counteract the negative effects of technological prolongation of life, doctors should now be able to end a patient's life peacefully, to stem the agony of an illness artificially prolonged by life support systems and other technology...