Word: counteractions
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...incongruous with the message of "Take Back the Night." Such a dubious choice of songs, moreover, attests to the insidiousness of the socialization we all experience within a patriarchal culture: despite the Pitches' good intentions, they inadvertently "reproduced" the very messages which "Take Back the Night" was designed to counteract...
...City Council vote last night laid the groundwork for Cambridge to adopt a sister city in El Salvador to counteract the damage that they say the American military has done in the Central American country...
...West German presidency is a ceremonial office and von Weizsacker on numerous occasions has commanded the necessary authority to counteract outbursts of hate in his country. This happened most recently after President Reagan's visit to a cemetery for German World War II veterans and SS officers, Bitburg. The visit justifiably caused an international furor, but one which led to a nationalistic reaction among Germans agitated by the attention brought to the Hitler years. In a widely praised and widely publicized speech, the 67-year old statesman took his nation--and his own political party--to task for trying...
Director of the Massachusetts Health Action Alliance, Susan T. Sherry, said that the Alliance has been working to counteract what it sees as the main causes of the infant mortality increase. She cited "inadequate physician participation in Medicaid" and the increase of uninsured people as possible causes for the increase of infant mortality. "People don't get preventative care if they're uninsured," she said...
...heat of our nation's capital, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of the day when "little Black boys and Black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers." If we hope to fulfill his dream, if we want to counteract the conservative backlash that threatens our nation today, we must remember what King has taught us and follow his lead. Failure to recall his struggles and his vision will cause us to plummet inexorably to the base of the mountain, which next time we will have to ascend without...