Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a University-wide task force recommended cutting the pension contribution by one percent and capping retirement health care benefits, faculty members issued a counter-proposal, asking for a soft cap on retirement benefits and the repeal of the pension reduction...
...says that if you don't like the business deals of a particular corporation, or if you don't like their products, you don't have to buy what they sell). If the expected move by cable and telephone giants concerns him enough, he can start activist organizations to counter the problem that he believes to exist (there are already dozens of such programs fighting Wal-Mart and Microsoft). If Mr. Pasquale can motivate enough people to join and boycott offending corporations, they will have to comply with his wishes or risk closing down. He will, in effect, accomplish...
Harvard has a talented, but untested, counter-punch to the Columbia defense. Harvard quarterback Vin Ferrara is coming off reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament surgery. He's had few problems so far, but no one knows if he can really hold up play after play, hit after hit. The inexperienced offensive line is another concern, although the players and Murphy universally note their faith...
...Crowding] used to be at the counter, but now all four of the registers are going and there are still lines," Berry said...
...counter this, LeMay actually proposed "a nuclear Sunday punch," a pre-emptive strike against the Soviets. In 1949 he wanted to send an armada of U.S. planes, carrying the entire Los Alamos stockpile--numbering more than 100 atom bombs--to destroy 70 Soviet cities. It was out of fear that a hot-headed general like LeMay might be able to launch a nuclear attack on his own that the Kennedy Administration later instituted a complex chain of commands governing the use of nuclear weapons...