Word: counteractivity
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Monro is currently working with the College Scholarship Service to organize both public and private colleges "to counteract this stigma." This mutual effort would involve recruitment of students from low-income districts through visits by college admissions officers...
...found even in geniuses. The technique of isolating certain elements for criticism is never used to praise an author or defend a position, but is common when breaking down a work of art. Many students are more delighted to discover error than beauty, and find it difficult to counteract this when they have to sustain a long thesis that is something other than adverse criticism. Even the moderate position removes emotional response as a criterion for evaluation, relying solely on theoretically objective tests that are often based on standards more arbitrary and less reliable than the emotions themselves. This withdrawal...
...Amend the Smith Act so as to counteract the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation of the words "organize" and "advocate" that upset the basis of the Federal Government's prosecution of active Communists (TIME, July 1, 1957). Such amendment is necessary, said the recommendations, "so that this nation need not be forced to delay the invoking of the judicial process until such time as the damage has already been wrought...
...economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production sags, it understates the drop, since prices tend to hold up. To counteract these price distortions, the Commerce Department brought out a new indicator. Henceforth, along with the regular quarterly G.N.P. expressed in dollars of current value, the department will publish a G.N.P. showing what the actual change would have been if the G.N.P. had been measured in 1957 dollars. The constant-dollar G.N.P...
...leveling off." Machines are slowing down, using less oil and coal, digesting fewer raw materials, spewing out fewer finished products, and making smaller profits. Only highly protected France seems still to be boosting its industrial production. Warned Heathcoat Amory: "We cannot look at present to rising European demand to counteract the downturn in the U.S., as we could in the last recession...