Word: counteractivity
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...haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building a $10 million monument to Lumumba near the capital...
Federal law forbids discrimination by federal contractors on the basis of sex. Any university receiving federal money found guilty of such discrimination must, the law says, "take affirmative action... to remedy the effects of past discrimination or to counteract discriminatory barriers to equal employment opportunity." Failure to act could cause the loss of those federal contracts. To Harvard, this means $60 million...
...Exactly. Our thing is we never send out anything like that-we never even send out newspaper releases. And one of the reasons why I am here and willing to spend a day here is tosort of counteract that kind of bullshit because it is bullshit. Like the thing in the New York Times was the most non-reflective piece that you could have. You have someboly implying that we are an apolitical theatre that now wants to go political. you know. This is after the most political activities that we've participated in in five years...
...installation does not radically alter any of the works except the stained glass, set in white panels and lighted from behind. Though you can see the painted lines and even bubbles in the glass, the availability of detail does not counteract the effect of the inappropriate background. The modern white setting drains luminosity from the lyrical scenes...
...next day, he let an assistant take over the questioning, and a state trooper reported that Dinis was "folding up" and would leave the island. Dinis reconsidered, returned to court and later spent 45 minutes lunching amiably on chili and corn chowder with reporters, apparently to counteract reports that he was angry...