Word: counteractivity
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...spent about $2 million on his campaign, Buckley's expenditures have outstripped those of any other Senatorial candidate. Moynihan's campaign, on the other hand, is running in the red, and recently Moynihan staffers agreed to forego their salaries to pump more money into television advertising to counteract Buckley's saturation-level media campaign...
...Cambridge and Boston papers aren't the best place to look. Majority Report, a biweekly newspaper published in New York City, doesn't have the listings of events around here, but it talks about women, minorities, politics (not just Democratic and Republican) and workers and makes an effort to counteract the distortions in mainstream media coverage of these topics that we are bombarded with incessantly...
...counteract such criticisms, the Videla junta has hired a pair of public relations agencies to spread the good news in the U.S. and elsewhere that Argentina's economy is stabilizing and social unrest...
AFTER THE JUNE elections the State Department finally realized what had been happening in Italian politics during the last ten years. The decline of Christian Democracy and the corresponding rise of the PC, as confirmed by the June vote, left Washington shocked and worried. To counteract this red surge, President Ford targeted $6 million in foreign aid, to be channelled through the CIA for distribution among individual politicians in the anti-Communist cause...
...stomach to halt recurrent hemorrhaging. But beyond that, there was little that the physicians could do for the rapidly failing dictator except administer digitalis, a commonly used heart-stimulant, to try to overcome his cardiac congestion, and antibiotics, to help fight infection. Anticoagulants, which would normally be given to counteract Franco's phlebitis, were probably ruled out because of his internal hemorrhaging. Diuretics, which would help him pass off excess fluids, would not be effective because of his kidney failure...