Word: counteractivity
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...American nouveau riche with “authentic” ghetto nihilism has created impossible aspirations of “ghettofabulousness” for young people. In the fantasy world of the “ghettofabulous,” the empty pursuit of possessions and pleasure pathetically seeks to counteract a self-imposed degradation, while the reckless self-abandonment that occasionally bubbles to the surface is venerated as the highest expression of cultural authenticity...
...collections, Professor of Latin and vice chair of the FAS Standing Committee on the Library Kathleen M. Coleman asked the administration for a “reasonable” rise in the Library’s funding—2 percent above the inflation rate—to counteract its $2.3 million in cuts for the 2004-2005 fiscal year...
...recent Harvard study shows that getting more exercise may not be enough to counteract the deadly effects of obesity...
Scientists have long debated whether exercise can counteract the effects of excess weight, which would make physical activity a more important risk inhibitor than body-mass index. Proponents of the “fat but fit” hypothesis say that body-mass index is too crude a measure because it ignores body composition and levels of fitness...
...experiments during the Holocaust. His abuse of twins, pregnant women and other prisoners is considered torture—not science. The CWA’s comparison is not only fundamentally and pathetically untrue, it’s blatantly offensive and, frankly, stupid. An apology issued later does little to counteract the offensive idiocy inherent in the comparison. In the context of public debate over the movie, this sort of justification shows us just how misinformed the anti-Kinsey intellect...