Word: counterpoint
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Here's how Miliband says he plans to do so as Foreign Secretary: by resisting the temptation to be reactive and formulate policy in counterpoint to Washington (or any other international player), instead emulating the strategy of Arsène Wenger, manager of Arsenal, the London soccer club he supports. "There are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's on the other team, and there are those who decide their strategy on the basis of who's in their team," says Miliband. "It's that latter strategy [Wenger] uses. Focus on your own strategy...
...Grammy winner Cathy Fink, who counts herself in an even more radio-unfriendly genre - children's music - offered a feisty counterpoint to Allcorn, insisting and re-insisting that she deserved to be fairly paid for her work. She pays for her own instruments, her own recording sessions, and her own health insurance, so why shouldn't she be fully compensated? She expressed little sympathy for webcasters and their plight. "There's all this talk that not all Internet radio companies are going to survive, but that's true with all businesses," Fink said. "Not every bicycle company survives. Not every...
...counterpoint to its stagnation in the U.S., golf is exploding overseas and attracting PGA stars, including Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, to the design game. Courses are popping up in places never before imagined as golfing destinations, such as Ghana, Vietnam, Croatia and Turkey. In the past five years 1,055 courses were built outside the U.S., in sunny spots like Majorca as well as in Sweden, where golf among young people is thriving. Over the next two years, 850 overseas courses are planned, according to the Golf Research Group. "Mediterranean countries, Eastern Europe and the Middle East will...
...highly noticeable role in the production. Instead of music, scenes frequently end with an almost underwater-sounding roar that builds up from a whisper and eventually overwhelms the voices. It adds a certain feeling of unreality and almost of dread to the play, and works well as a counterpoint to the action at its more surreal moments...
...Queen’s Head will be a pleasant counterpoint to the orgiastic, fluorescent bear-pit that is the Lamont Café. Hopefully, it will obtain the Café’s popularity while sustaining the grandfatherly allure of the fifth floor’s Farnsworth Room—the last of the great laptop-free zones...