Word: counterattack
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home pages on the Internet. When Helen Hunt ranted against the heartless HMO that was making life difficult for her and her asthmatic son in the movie As Good as It Gets, audiences cheered so lustily that the health industry's professional association felt compelled to launch a counterattack. It produced an ad for viewing in movie theaters that claimed Hunt's fictional son would have fared better in an HMO than in a traditional health plan; the screenwriters "got the facts all wrong." The multiplexes, knowing where their customers' sympathies lay, didn't want to show...
...most concentrated infestations anywhere in the world. Damage in the metro area over the past decade has outstripped the havoc wreaked by hurricanes, tornadoes and floods combined. And it is here that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service is launching its first major counterattack against the hungry bugs...
...story was based on interviews with soldiers and officers who participated in the mission, several of whom said they believed nerve gas had been used on enemy troops attempting a counterattack on the U.S. forces. Those reports were confirmed by several high-level military sources. Admiral Thomas Moorer, U.S.N. (ret.), who was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked on camera in general terms about the military use of sarin. Before the broadcast, the Pentagon said it could find no evidence to support the story. Defense Secretary William Cohen subsequently announced an investigation of the charges...
...within two weeks, the University quietly began a million-dollar financial counterattack--upping its offers on an individual basis and giving the class of 2002 just enough to win them away from competitors...
...hipster style all the more fascinating for its plain links to squaredom. The minute that grunge thing came along, circa 1990, you knew it was only a matter of time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their way through the world on terms they borrowed from Frank...