Word: countering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During its long gestation, the festival underwent repeated changes of rationale. In the 1970s it was touted as a way to counter the publicity fallout from New York's fiscal crisis, a prototype "I Love New York" campaign. Later, as other cities staged their own festivals -- including Los Angeles in 1984 and again in 1987, and Chicago in 1986 and again this spring -- a New York event became an issue of civic pride. By the time it finally got under way June 11, its goal was seen as mainly aesthetic. According to Founder Martin Segal, a financial consultant and chairman...
...specially designed capsules. The capsules are mixed with a binding agent and affixed to the paper to prevent the scents from bursting during rough handling in the mail. Once the ad is ripped open, the scent behaves just as if it were wafting in the air above the perfume counter...
...poor, the Legal Aid Society's Park Place office in Manhattan is overwhelmed. Flooded with requests for help, the 26 lawyers who work there resort to a kind of triage system, sometimes choosing to block an eviction before untangling a Social Security foul-up, or rushing to counter an immigration problem while other clients wait for assistance in getting welfare benefits. "We just don't have the money or the staffing to do it all," says Attorney Morton Dicker...
After an eight-year legal odyssey that has witnessed motions and counter-motions, destroyed documents and heated pre-trial debate, the case of Barbara Bund Jackson '66 vs. Harvard University reached the courtroom this spring...
...adds that universities are likely to fight harder against charges of bias "because the accusation of discrimination is directly counter to what most universities stand for, and no university takes it lying down...