Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Usually I disagree with the accusation that the media exaggerates bad news and ignores good news. But in this case, I have to go along with the assessment of a deli counter worker at my local supermarket: "It's hard to believe, but it's like they enjoy showing people fall...
...different coins were worth a peseta (less than a cent) and whether the regal Placa de Catalunya really was enhanced by an enormous inflatable M & M. More than a half-century ago, Barcelona, the city of seasoned oppositionists, had been all set to hold the "People's Games," to counter the Hitler Olympics of Berlin. But civil war interceded. Now, as fireworks lighted up the sky above the pulsing stadium and competitors consulted Video Tarot screens in the glittering subway stations, prospects all round seemed bright enough to bring a confident smile even to the face of a grizzled...
...tobacco industry, predictably, attacked the report, arguing that it unfairly took tobacco's effects on those who smoke and extrapolated to those who don't. The authors counter that the link is valid, but said they would bolster their arguments in the final report, due within a few months, as requested by the board...
Thus, when the White House decided to send a top official to St. Louis last week to counter the Clinton-Gore bus tour, it assigned presidential adviser Clayton Yeutter, who emphasized that "Clinton does not have one-tenth the stature that the President has all over the world. The American people are going to wake up and realize this...
Violence is on TV and in the movies; does it really have to be in the mouths of babes" Kids compete in academic, athletic and social environments; does competition need to extend to the candy counter? Does an overly-sensitive tongue really make you a nerd...