Word: counteractions
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Increased financial aid will probably counteract part of the cost increase, he said. "About 40 per cent of our students receive some form of aid, and some of these students may need extra help to cope with the extra charges," Hartley said...
Carter seems to have decided the question in the oil companies' favor. His actions with regard to oil prices make a mockery of his anti-infaltion rhetoric, and probably more than counteract any decline in inflation that would be achieved by his budget cuts...
...side, American Express enlisted the aid of the Lazard Frères investment banking firm, and Lazard in turn engaged Joseph Flom, a lawyer famed for his skill in fighting long delaying actions against takeovers and thus an expert on how to counteract such tactics. American Express further arranged $700 million in stand-by credits from major banks. It obviously does not need the money, but might prefer to borrow for the takeover rather than cash in some high-yielding securities...
...also said the University will try to counteract rising costs through its planned $250-million fund drive. In ten or 15 years, moreover, demographic trends indicate that the average family will have fewer children to send to college--a relief for those who want to send, their children to Harvard, Bok says...
Dudman, 60, and Becker, 31, were experienced reporters who had covered the Indochina war in both Viet Nam and Cambodia for extended periods. Their 1,000-mile trip through eleven of Cambodia's 19 provinces was clearly an attempt by the Cambodian regime to counteract its worldwide image as a merciless, anonymous and genocidal regime. That image has been fed by the accounts of postrevolutionary life given by thousands of refugees in neighboring Thailand and Viet Nam. Caldwell, a lecturer in Southeast Asian economic history at the University of London, accompanied the reporters as a sympathetic student of Cambodia...