Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe News student poll taken in the spring of '42 showed that nine of every 10 students favored retaliation for the Japanese bombing of defenseless Manila with an American counter-bombing of Japanese cities...
...saving it. Everybody has ideas, including a Florentine who suggested erecting a massive statue of Pisa's patron, St. Ranieri, to hold up the bell tower, but engineers finally decided on a more mundane approach. About 800 tons of lead ingots are to be installed at the base to counter the tower's precarious inclinations. To give it some support in the meantime, workers last week began girdling the structure with 18 steel bands...
Nationally, big-city jailers, their hands already full controlling pretrial detainees and short-term prisoners in overcrowded conditions, tend to resist such reforms. They want more proof that the new designs are truly more efficient and that their guards will be safe. Proponents counter that with proper screening, violent prisoners, who account for only 10% of inmates, can be isolated in highly secure areas, while the general population could dwell in less expensive -- and relatively normal -- environments...
...shirts, and a sprinkling of former Vietnam POWS in black shirts as a reminder of their suffering. As the patriotic pageantry built to a climax, a compact man with jug ears, weather-beaten face and glasses, the sort of fellow who looks like he might belong behind the counter in a small-town hardware store, bounded up to the impromptu stage, and the crowd roared, "Run, Ross...
...owned corporation would be sent to prison if he kept books like our government." On the gulf war: "Only in America would you have a war, get it over with and have all the heroes either be generals or politicians." He also deserves credit for taking stands that run counter to the timorous can't-tell-the-truth-to-the-people philosophy of both parties. He favors means testing for both Social Security and Medicare because he believes it indefensible for someone as rich as himself to get government benefits at a time of $400 billion deficits. He is justly...