Word: countering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to remember that the United State's role in the world often runs directly counter to Carter's rhetoric. The U.S. government serves certain interests regardless of human oppression and suffering--corporate interests as in South Africa, military interests as in the Philippines...
...counter patrolmen's complaints about having to rotate their assignments every three months, Chafin decided to implement a one-year minimum assignment policy. He hopes this will allow officers a chance to develop more personal contacts with members of the community, and also help officers to become familiar with a particular area--"so they feel they are a part of it, not apart from...
...credit people say the virtue of their bill is the simplicity with which taxpayers can claim the credit on their tax returns. The benefits from the Opportunity Act would go only to those who could fight through a tangle of complicated application forms. But the Opportunity Act proponents counter by saying that the Internal Revenue Service will have to set up a completely new bureaucratic network to administer the tax credits and collect much of the same data that the Office of Health. Education and Welfare already monitors. HEW, however, has come under fire recently for permitting rampant fraud...
Further allegations of unfair practice surfaced in the union's organizing campaign at Beth Israel which resulted in another union defeat, 593-294. The hospital charged Shea with assault and battery after an altercation with a hospital guard. Shea filed counter charges, and in December 1976 a court threw out the case. In addition, a state rate-setting commission ruled that Beth Israel had to return $19,000 in funds used to hire a Chicago management consulting firm which advised on ways to defeat the union...
...doin', Joe?" a friend from his House called across the counter. "You just get out from practice...