Word: counterattack
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...Veep's prospects. But Gore set out to beat the carefully lowered expectations. He spent Saturday alone reading a giant, black briefing book prepared by aides. On Sunday he reviewed videotapes of Perot's recent TV appearances and directed research into Perot's many claims, discussing lines of counterattack with aides. On Monday, a team of nearly a dozen advisers fired questions at Gore for two hours over a chicken dinner at the Naval Observatory residence and then held a mock debate on stools in a foyer. Oklahoma Democrat Mike Synar played Perot and White House Communications Director Mark Gearan...
...speech on the Senate floor, Oregon Republican Bob Packwood declared that the ethics committee investigating him on charges of sexual misconduct should not subpoena his diaries -- because that would raise serious privacy issues and because the diaries contain accounts of the amorous affairs of other members. In a blistering counterattack, the committee declared it needed the diaries to look into possible crimes unrelated to the harassment accusations. A flustered Senate considers whether to seek enforcement of the subpoena this week...
...soon as Charleston saw the Pentagon's list, the city's political leaders and Chamber of Commerce launched a public relations counterattack. They raised $1 million to pay for a full-time staff and Washington-based lobbyists. In 18 days they rounded up 140,000 signatures on protest letters. The operation mobilized not only the shipyard's employees but also local businessmen from auto dealers to restaurateurs...
Faludi, currently a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, has started research for a second book which deals with the topic of masculinity. Faludi will aim the as yet untitled new book, which is due for publication in two and a half years, at finding the roots of the counterattack identified in Backlash...
Harvard lost the contest 3-1, as Princeton controlled the action and made the Crimson victims of its effective counterattack...