Word: countering
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Libel plaintiff lawyers like Attorney Gerry Spence counter that the victims of a writer's vendetta or recklessness are entitled to recompense. "We must be free to fictionalize, but we can't hurt people with the exercise of our freedom," says Spence. Six years ago he represented a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring, in a suit against Penthouse, which ran a tale about the sexual feats of a fictional Miss Wyoming. Though an appeals court threw out the lower-court award of $12.5 million, the case sent a shiver through publishers. Another shudder had come with a 1979 decision...
Director of the Harvard Foundation, S. Allen Counter described...
...among some party members that setting up stock exchanges is not what socialism should be about. So if Zhao Ziyang is unable to take new measures to maintain the momentum of the reform program, it could be undermined by wary supporters and beneficiaries taking shelter for fear of political counter-attacks...
...fresh initiatives in his fiscal 1988 budget proposal Ronald Reagan weighed in with a plan of his own: a $1 billion counseling and retraining program designed to help workers displaced from their jobs and to counter Democratic plans to capitalize on the competitiveness issue through protectionist legislation. The Worker Adjustment Assistance Program is likely to be part of a trade bill that the Administration intends to put forth as a defense against those Democrats who are pushing for new tariffs, quotas and other restrictions on "unfair" foreign competition...
...formed in 1982 by ten companies, in part to counter Japan's Fifth- Generation Project, a combined government and industry effort to develop new supercomputers. The consortium's member firms agreed to pool the results of jointly financed long-term research conducted at an Austin center on such subjects as artificial intelligence and the making of silicon microchips. The original MCC roster was an honor roll of technological titans, including Digital Equipment, Advanced Micro Devices, Honeywell and National Semiconductor. Subsequently other respected firms, including 3M and Boeing, joined, and the current membership numbers...