Word: counteractions
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Ominous Sign. "Before, the majority was asked only to ratify; now it is asked to abdicate," said Jean Lecanuet, the head of the Centre Démocrate Party and a leading center politician. He was expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned...
...chemicals to protect them against air polluted by nearby petrochemical plants. In Tokyo, where smog warnings were issued on 154 days last year, policemen in ten heavily polluted districts return to the station house to breathe pure oxygen after each half-hour stint on traffic duty in order to counteract the effects of breathing excessive amounts of carbon monoxide...
...Fickle. Quickly grasping the situation, Kiesinger ruled out the Free Democrats as too fickle for another coalition. Besides, he believed that Germany needed a strong government to counteract the growing mood of dissatisfaction with what many people called "the mess in Bonn." Therefore, he arranged a secret meeting in Bonn with Herbert Wehner, the Socialists' deputy leader who handles party matters while Chairman Brandt attends to his mayoral duties in Berlin...
...Arfons was at Bonneville to regain the record he lost last year when Craig Breedlove clocked 600 m.p.h. in his own jet car, Spirit of America. Art was confident that he had licked Green Monster's handling problems by adding a hydraulically operated "spoiler," or fin, designed to counteract the torque overload that had caused the blowouts...
Even those professors or university heads who want earnestly to "save something from the wreck of general and liberal education in our universities" are "functionaries of the very system which general education is meant to counteract," he says...