Word: counteracts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...team sustained a minor blow: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against them, rejecting Bush's claims that Florida's recounts are unconstitutional. GOP lawyers had hoped a ruling in their favor would add momentum to a growing swell of Bush legal victories, and might even serve to counteract a Gore victory in the Florida Supreme Court...
...remarks, Lee said her main purpose in speaking was to counteract the widespread negative image of her father...
...that matter most. And spare him the clatter about politics as the art of compromise. "Politics is the art of transforming leadership, and a transforming leader is a person who says, This is the right thing to do, and I'm going to help mobilize the American people to counteract the special interests...
...sagging under its own weight and distorting the curve, the mirror had to be a bulky 26 in. thick, and it weighed 20 tons. That enormous heft called for an even more massive support structure to hold the whole thing up while at the same time adjusting constantly to counteract the effect of Earth's rotation. Scaling the design up any further would have been absurdly expensive...
...Europe, design teams came up with yet another idea, the exact opposite of Angel's: instead of making the mirror hollow to save weight, let it be thin--about 8 in. thick for an 8-m mirror, in contrast to the 5-m Hale's 26 in.--and counteract the resulting floppiness with computer-controlled supports that continually readjust its shape...