Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...save training time, Pentagon officials say, the U.S. may attempt to tap those former Warsaw Pact arsenals for additional materiel. Slovak plants could provide T-72 tanks. Small arms, including the Kalashnikov AK-47 rifle, might be obtained from Afghan arms bazaars or a sympathetic stockpiler like Syria. To counter the Serbs' 105-mm artillery pieces and T-72 tanks, the Muslims could use Western-made counterartillery radar, which Washington would have to ( supply directly or through allies. The Pentagon would want to ship TOW antitank weapons and light armored vehicles -- fast, mobile carriers useful for keeping forces together...
...Stith points out, in the U.S. the median white family's net worth is about $43,000, in contrast to $4,100 for the median black household. "The inescapable conclusion," he says, "is that we need economic reinvestment and community renewal in urban America if we are going to counter the frustration that fueled the destruction and violence...
...United Methodist Church in Boston's South End, points to a potentially powerful legal tool for achieving these goals: the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It requires banks to make loans to low-income individuals or poor-risk companies in their own neighborhoods. It has been widely used to counter mortgage redlining and has proved a boon to the nation's 40-plus black banks...
...Latina if she were virulently anti-Semitic? Is it acceptable to invite a man who uses a wheelchair even though he is a self-proclaimed racist? Asserting that Powell's achievements outweigh his bigotry is exactly the type of divisive behavior Kelly condemns in his letter: "it is counter-productive if victims of discrimination lash out at other victims...
...strategist of Sunday's march, Mixner wanted to ensure that it would & not turn into an attack on the President, whatever his perceived shortcomings. Still, Mixner believes that gays must maintain pressure to counter the onslaught from the religious right. "When Clinton was elected," he says, "we were a fan club. We are not a fan club anymore. We are in an alliance that will not be comfortable at all times. We will hold our friend's feet to the fire." Like many gays, Mixner sees Clinton as offering more sympathy than empathy. They perceive a President who is repulsed...