Word: counteractions
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...agree that they "never had it so good." He evidently plans to convince the majority who do that he is personally barring the door against terrific pressures from the murky outside. Following New Hampshire, Johnson's "lonely crusader" pose has become much more credible and may even work to counteract the image of image of willful petulance which has been at the base of much of the anti-Johnson sentiment in the country. As George Meany told the Building and Construction Workers, "I don't think we are going to turn a back on a friend just because...
...phase of life which leaves childhood and merges gently with adulthood, the possibility for any psychological strengths for a firmer development to mature is opened. Above all, it integrates the individual's search for an ideological form, for the valid, underlying rituals of our society in an attempt to counteract the meaninglessness and vagueness of society's conventions and values. [Ritual is used in the sense that Erikson describes ritualization: a mutually accepted interplay between at least two persons who repeat it at intervals and in recurrent contexts and which has an adaptive value for the go of each participant...
...method has many advantages over the old one. Most important, the hemophiliac tends to produce antibodies which counteract the vital Factor VIII when it is injected. With the new techniques of organ transplant that have recently been developed, it is possible to establish a permanent source of Factor VIII inside the hemophiliac--by inserting an entirely new spleen...
...Europeans find Americans efficiently cold, Americans for their part often find Europeans dismayingly disorganized. Says ITT Executive Vice President Tim Dunleavy: "To counteract the long, lean, hungry guys coming in, a European company tries to merge with another European company. But that only adds to the difficulty. You get two overstaffed, overweight companies getting together, and you're making the problem twice as serious as it was in the first place. That sort of action makes them more prey than ever to American companies, but a lot of businessmen and politicians still don't recognize this...
...claim that political support for the Freedom Budget would be gathered by "convincing" in an elitist way local "church groups and political clubs" to support it. I said that at the local level Freedom Budget supporters plan person-to-person work in '68 to counteract the backlash among low-income white voters by showing that racist appeals are used by reactionaries as a cover-up for anti-labor conservative social and economics policies. I also added that a supplementary effort would be made with "religious groups and community political organizations," not "political clubs" like Tammany Hall or the Daley machine...