Word: counteractivity
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...rays striking Hubble's cold solar panels produced a minor vibration that caused the spacecraft to oscillate slowly. This motion confused instruments that were built to such precision that they could read a license plate 48 km (30 miles) away. NASA software designers are now writing programs to counteract the oscillations so that the telescope tube can be held steady...
...Nightly News; today's young people "have got their own TV and their own video systems." Friedman is trying to make the NBC newscast "more relevant" to young viewers by stressing family issues and adding touches of irreverent humor. Louis Heldman, who is studying how to counteract declining readership for the Knight-Ridder newspaper chain, observes that people today, especially young working women, have less spare time for news. "Information needs to be delivered more efficiently," he says, "to people who are trying to get the kids dressed for school and who may spend most of their time with...
...your doors to every religious, political, or social organization, no matter how controversial or distasteful its views may be? I think not." Even Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan, who concurred with the majority ruling, expressed serious reservations. In order to preserve the separation of church and state and counteract peer pressures, the pair insisted, schools must "make clear that their recognition of a religious club does not reflect their endorsement of the views of the club's participants...
...solution is not for liberal, Harvard-educated officers to infiltrate the military and counteract the backwardness and intolerance running rampant in the ranks. The likes of Navy Midshipman Sumner E. Anderson '92, who called homosexuality "deviant behavior" and "a disease," cast doubt on this approach...
...party, it was often said (including by one of Gorbachev's closest advisers as recently as November), was the one "all-union" institution that could exert the gravitational pull necessary to counteract the many centrifugal forces. Superimpose a multiparty system on a multinational empire, and soon Moscow would be the capital of a rump state called Russia...