Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coupled with the knowledge that Washington turns the other cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...
...OUTCASTS, who have adopted diameterically opposed attitudes, represent typical human reactions to the state of superfluity. Zoditch refuses to recognize his insignificance; he believes all women love him and despises their feminine weakness, which runs counter to his own assumed logic and coolheadedness. This supposed predilection merely masks his unbearable sense of irreparable inferiority...
...curb their sexual activity at the behest of Ronald Reagan. Alternate sources of contraceptives are available, but most adolescents patronize the clinic in the first place because they do not have access to a private doctor or because they intelligently desire effective methods to supplement those offered over the counter in drug stores...
...Nixon Administration sought a foreign policy that eschewed both moralistic crusading and escapist isolationism. The subtlest critique of our policy held that our emphasis on national interest ran counter to American idealism. On this thesis, Americans must affirm general values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate...
...power would no longer compensate for Soviet superiority in conventional strength or capacity for regional intervention. Given strategic parity, the democracies would have to build up their conventional strength if they wanted to avoid political blackmail. With every passing year, official arms-control theory thus ran more and more counter to the official strategic doctrine of nuclear retaliation...