Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counter Gorbachev's talk of a "common home," Bush could emphasize the "common ideals" -- free markets, free trade and free people -- that have been the positive basis for the American partnership with Western Europe that was born with the Marshall Plan. An alliance once based on necessity would become one based on shared values...
...risks poor health by losing muscle tissue. "These programs are definitely not for a patient who has 20 lbs. to lose and wants to get into a bikini," says Jim Parsons, Optifast's director. Nor are they for the do-it- yourselfer. "If you use an over-the-counter formula product as your sole source of nutrition, it's like playing Russian roulette," says Joan Horbiak, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Patients in liquid-diet programs occasionally suffer temporary side effects, such as fatigue, constipation, dizziness and hair loss...
...shopkeeper cowers behind his counter, paralyzed by indecision and fear. Sri Lanka's presidential campaign is at its height, but in the southern town of Ambalangoda the streets are nearly deserted, save for police and army troops on patrol. Under orders to open the shops of Ambalangoda, the uniformed men move up and down the streets, using the butts of their automatic rifles to knock the locks off the shuttered storefronts. The shopkeeper would gladly comply, but that could cost him his life. A general strike has been ordered by the People's Liberation Front (J.V.P.), Sinhalese extremists...
...puzzles Asimov is unable to crack: "I have never found a way to convince them. They tell me there is 'absolute proof' of aliens landing on this planet. They read it with their own eyes. It turns out they read it at the supermarket checkout counter, trying to escape from reality...
Baker and Gates counter such charges, however, arguing that their work still involves the formation of clear political agendas. "I think that any scholarship that does not look to immediate social problems is not worth the paper it is written on," says Baker...