Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Russian system of empire collapses and new structures take its place," says Ozal, "we can serve as a counter to the influences of religious extremism coming up from here" -- he points to Iran -- "and from here" -- he indicates the Arabian Peninsula. He believes he has persuaded the Kremlin, through its former Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, that "Turkey can play a stabilizing role inside the U.S.S.R...
Centuries of foreign domination have left Arabs with a sense of violation, of second-class status. When communism collapsed in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, the feeling of vulnerability deepened. Arabs found themselves without strategic allies to help them counter Israel's -- and, by extension, America's -- power. George Bush's new world order did not seem to promise much for the Arabs, who militarily remain weaker than Israel. Saddam's answer -- standing up to the world's only superpower -- thus struck a chord within the Arab psyche...
...best defense against steroids, year-round random testing, is meant to counter athletes' efforts to hide the presence of drugs by stopping their use just before competition. But year-round testing is costly and complicated. Even sports organizations that say they are intent upon rooting out steroids -- the U.S. Olympic Committee and the NCAA, among them -- are only now gathering the experience and resources to do so. The NCAA conducted about 14,000 drug tests in 1990, vs. 5,000 in 1986, but year-round testing is still limited to Division I football...
...Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio issued a harsh letter charging that the U.S. government is boosting Evangelicalism to "help consolidate its economic and political power." Pope John Paul II believes the inroads of unnamed "sects" could become "disastrous." During last year's tour of Mexico, designed in part to counter Evangelicalism, the Pontiff directed clergy to abandon "timidity and diffidence" in combatting their rivals...
...jail is a stiff punishment for joining in a peaceful demonstration. Still, the seven individuals sentenced earlier this month to two- to four-year prison terms for their part in Beijing's 1989 Tiananmen Square protests got off relatively lightly. Ordinarily in China, their alleged crimes -- ranging from spreading counter-revolutionary propaganda to subversion -- bring 10- to 15-year terms...