Word: counteracts
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What's going on? Several things at once, I suspect. At a hormonal level, studies have shown that meditation can counteract the fight-or-flight response that floods the body with the stress hormone cortisol and that also shuts down the parasympathetic system, which normally restores order after the alert is over. At a molecular level, meditation slows metabolism in red blood cells and suppresses the production of cytokines--proteins associated with the kind of heightened immune response often seen in stressed-out subjects such as students taking exams...
...Christmas in January President George W. Bush proposed an audacious tax-cut program - one he hopes will jump-start the sputtering U.S. economy. The plan, which would eliminates taxes on corporate dividends, delighted Wall Street but led Democrats to charge that Bush was merely making the rich richer. To counteract that criticism, the package also includes a rise in child and married-couples tax allowances. In addition, tax-rate cuts scheduled for 2004 and 2006 would be introduced immediately. "Our first challenge is to allow Americans to keep more of their money so they can spend and save and invest...
...keys to Harvard’s turnaround was that it started to play a small possession game in the second half. Michigan State was putting numbers on the ball when Harvard had possession. The Crimson was able to counteract that by ensuring its other players weren’t playing way above the ball...
...announced this September the design it has chosen for the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. The instrument, called the Next Generation Space Telescope, will likely be located at a special point in space nearly a million miles from earth where the gravity of the earth and the sun counteract each other to keep the telescope in stable position. Such a location has also been suggested as a manned station in space that could be used in future expeditions throughout the solar system...
...agency Leo Burnett Beijing and set aside $11 million for marketing this year, one of the biggest corporate-marketing budgets in China. Higher-end product lines, created with the help of top sports-shoe designers Massimiliano Zago of Italy and Paviot Jean-Philippe of France, are being added to counteract the brand's bargain-bin tinge...