Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...AIDS was no exception. Soon after researchers announced in the mid-1980s that they had discovered the virus that causes AIDS, U.S. health officials confidently crowed that a vaccine would be ready in two years. The most frightening scourge of the late 20th century would succumb to a swift counterattack of human ingenuity and high technology...
...beaten down," says a friend. "Quiet and not as assertive as she normally was." She had already been burned by some of the reaction to her campaign against obscene rock lyrics. While she always insisted that government censorship was never her goal, she found herself the target of a counterattack led by the A.C.L.U. Frank Zappa called her a "cultural terrorist." Hollywood liberals -- who were also big Democratic contributors -- piled on, which led her husband's advisers to encourage him to distance himself from his wife's effort...
...June. Bush, who has been forced to play catch-up on foreign policy and education, had been hoping to get ahead of his rival by focusing on trade matters. But Clinton's "theme of the week" attack trumped Bush's own effort, and the President hurriedly launched a counterattack on Clinton's environmental record. "This man," said Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, "does know pollution. He's got it. He's caused...
Throughout history, Faludi argues, any time women tried to loosen their corsets and breathe more freely, they met with a suffocating counterattack. In the 1980s this backlash surfaced in the Reagan White House, the courts, Hollywood and, above all, the mass media, whose collective message to women went something like this: Feminism is your worst enemy. All this freedom is making you miserable, unmarriageable, infertile, unstable. Go home, bake a cake, quit pounding on the doors of public life, and all your troubles will go away...
...Crimson's goal sparked a Big Red counterattack. Led by senior Kim Ratushny, Cornell rattled off several shots on Villiotte...