Word: countering
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THINGS ARE A LOT CALMER NOW. A couple decades back, when this country stood in the throes of a counter-Cultural revolution, Dewitt did not wear his natty tie and sports jacket, was not chained to his 9 to 5, climate-controlled desk job. No sirree, Jack, Dewitt was a free spirit, a rebel, a long-haired, peace-loving, dope-smoking, antiestablishment, bonafide freak...
Higher education officials admit that new pressures on their institutions, including increasing criticism of their practices and demands to cut the federal budget deficit, have forced them to adopt some of the characteristics of a special interest group. Specifically, universities have increased their lobbying effort to counter these threats...
Goetz's lawyers counter that the threat was real and that Goetz, badly beaten in a previous mugging, realized he was in danger and did what...
...depended largely on intermediate-range, nuclear-armed U.S. aircraft at bases on allied soil and on carriers patrolling the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. In order to attack the U.S.S.R., fighter-bombers would have to run a gauntlet of Soviet antiaircraft installations, but nonetheless they were deemed a sufficient counter to clunky, obsolescent Soviet missiles...
Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Contemporary South Africa--Robin Hallet. Coolidge Hall Room 1, Harvard...