Word: counterassault
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...Street economists about the dangers of the Republican plan to change the government's accounting rules to make tax cuts appear less expensive. A negative reaction by the financial markets could discredit many of the Republican taxing and spending plans. Typically, Gingrich's planned response to Rubin was a counterassault, inviting 25 top Wall Street economists to Washington to suggest they were "being stupid" to buy the White House line...
...last week for filmmaker Paramount Communications. With a bid from Viacom Inc. valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back with an antitrust suit accusing one of Diller's chief backers, John Malone, the head of cable-TV powerhouse Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), of monopolizing the cable industry...
Kaiser: I don't think you're fair. Let me go a step further and make a counterassault. The view you're expressing has been passed on from time to time in a semiofficial way, and it is really counterproductive. It irritates the Europeans because they feel they are doing a number of constructive things. It is certainly not correct to say that the Europeans have done absolutely nothing. If you put together all the measures, you come up with quite a list of actions.* Nor can you blame the Europeans for not coming forth with immediate...
...music and all aesthetics was the basis for rejecting white educational values, theories and standards." Manning Marable, editor of the Socialist Review and Professor at U. San Francisco, writing about Black Studies, concludes that white aesthetic and political hegemony has been successfully challenged in the face of a white counterassault. The failure Dean Henry Rosovsky refers to is the failure of Harvard to provide any environment for the growth ot this new independent approach...
...presidents. He shot the footage he wanted at his own pace and to his own taste. When he finally sold the distribution rights to Columbia Pictures, the company started suggesting cuts and compromises and refused to give him a definite opening date for the movie. Cassavetes quickly launched a counterassault. He and his co-stars would sneak out in the early hours of the morning and paste Husbands posters all over Manhattan. He organized his own preview screenings, angrily fired off lengthy letters to the chain of command and in general exhausted the entire executive branch of Columbia Pictures. Wearily...