Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Green Coach Josle Harper would likely have echoed Rifaat's comments. Her defensive core simply did not have the speed nor the checks to counter the surging Harvard attack. And at the other end of the field, the Crimson defense once again sparkled, frustrating Dartmouth's slow-down style of offense and allowing it few quality shots...
...hero and denounced as a subversive. Maathai, 51, is the founder and director of the Green Belt Movement, a 14-year-old tree-planting project staffed primarily by women. The internationally acclaimed movement, which has spread to a dozen African nations, has planted 10 million trees. The goal: to counter rampant tree clearing and the advance of the African desert, which contribute to poverty and hunger. To date, 50,000 Kenyan women have worked in 1,500 GBM nurseries, earning 4 cents for each tree they tend; funds come from benefactors on four continents...
...from the powerful myth of his family into real time, which is intolerant of the bright and ideal. The fracture set a pattern of sharp contradiction: the "brief shining moment" would give way to long, sordid aftermaths. Greek tragedy ("the curse of the Kennedys") would degenerate into sleazy checkout-counter revelations ("Jack and Bobby and Marilyn"). The serious lawmaker in Ted Kennedy would turn now and then into a drunken, overage, frat-house boor, the statesman into a party animal, the romance of the Kennedys into a smelly, toxic mess. The family patriarch, the oldest surviving Kennedy male, would revert...
...Rauch said he realized the plan might have its opponents. "People might make a counter-argument that shifting the late night schedule might pose a security problem," he said...
Activists counter that there is plenty of data to support intervention, including clear evidence of incipient heart disease in youngsters. Autopsies of children killed in accidents, for example, have revealed fatty fibrous ) plaques clogging the coronary arteries of 15-year-olds and fatty deposits along the aortic walls of children as young as two or three. "We see a strong correlation between cholesterol and these lesions," says Dr. Gerald Berenson, director of the landmark Bogalusa Heart Study that monitored 12,000 children for 18 years. Moreover, youngsters in the U.S. have much higher cholesterol levels than do children in countries...