Word: counteractions
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...rape case should force all who live and work here to recognize the risks of walking and studying alone and to work to counteract these risks. Harvard is not an island or a tower, but part of a city, and a dangerous one at that...
...Injections of the drugs papaverine and phentolamine into the penis can counteract stiffening of the corpora cavernosa and thus permit engorgement with blood. Dosage is carefully balanced to produce an erection that lasts about two hours, and patients learn how to inject themselves. Urologists recommend that drug use be limited to ten times a month to avoid scarring. Occasionally a patient will suffer a prolonged erection; impotence clinics provide 24-hour emergency service to administer an antidote. Cost of the therapy: $1,200 to $2,400 a year. Robert Batts, 40, a former policeman in Hull, Mass., who became impotent...
...deadline to set in motion the long-delayed independence process for Namibia. Afrikaner skeptics are muttering that independence for "South West," as they call Namibia, will just bring another Marxist government to power on South Africa's borders. Botha is using coverage of his road-show triumphs to counteract angry charges of "surrender" from the right-wing Conservative Party, which threatens to score large gains in national municipal elections...
That remains to be seen. The law could be used as a creative force to enhance U.S. competitiveness or as a tool of protectionism that could contribute to economic stagnation. The legislation gives the President new power to counteract trade practices by foreign countries, but it also gives the White House the latitude to decide when to retaliate. In short, the law will be as tough as future Presidents make...
Beyond the power and slam, the appeal of boxing may just be its simplicity. It is so basic and bare. In a square ring or vicious circle, stripped to the waist and bone, punchers and boxers counteract. Tyson is already the first, and potentially the second, so the eternal matchup of gore and guile doesn't just occupy him outwardly, it swirls inside him as well. Modern moviemakers are good at capturing the choreography of fights -- they understand the Apache dance. But in their Dolby deafness they overdo the supersonic bashing and skip one of the crucial attractions: the missing...