Word: counteracts
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...Reilly had not responded to the resolution as of last night and many students said they suspected that O’Reilly would not apologize.But, Freeman said he thought that students responded well. “It’s just important that student organizations moved so quickly to counteract the claims made by O’Reilly’s shows,” he said. “It shows how much people here care about Brown, but we don’t want to linger on this issue. There are many other, more important things that...
...rovers currently rolling across Mars may never have made it to the surface if someone who saw the plans had not begun fretting about the Martian winds the ships would encounter and argued for additional thrusters to counteract them. The thrusters were added, and the design change made all the difference. More recently, the lab was planning the less publicized Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)--a twin-satellite pas de deux designed to measure Earth's gravitational field and its effect on ocean currents. A critical step was eliminating any wobble between the ships. J.P.L. staff members had been...
Because the threat is so complex, he said, organizations like the E.U. have a responsibility to counteract it through a multifaceted approach—most of which he said he has arranged, or is currently trying to coordinate, throughout the organization...
...Faith and a leading church conservative, who feels that Vatican II led to a lamentable confusion about what Catholic teaching truly is. Asked whether the synod would launch a "restoration" of the church, a term used by Ratzinger in a recent controversial book to describe the efforts to counteract supposed damage from liberal interpretations of Vatican II, Danneels snapped, "We are not having a synod about a book...
...varies in strength from element to element. It is strongest in iron and weakest in hydrogen. Thus, the physicists contend, if an iron ball and, say, a feather were released simultaneously in a vacuum, the iron's repulsive hypercharge would act more strongly than the feather's to counteract the earth's gravity--and the feather would hit first...