Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposals are "something of a red herring," Dallas Marin president of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators told the lobbyists. He counseled that students counter any suggestion of resorting the GSLs in "exchange" for the Pell grants by "telling them, 'We absolutely dismiss this; now let's look at the rest of your bad proposals...
After a semester of of behind the scenes activity and low-key negotiations. S. Allen Counter and the race relations Foundation he heads may be emerging from the shadows The Foundation sponsored a speech last at the Science Center by Walter J. Massey a prominent Black scientist and head of the Argonne Laboratories, signaling a new phase of visible activity by the group which has been charged by the University with easing racial tensions on campus...
...Foundations is a "two-pronged effort," according to the Rev Peter J Gomes, who chaired the committee that recommended it will work both for the "resolution of differences among racial group on campus and as a forum where common gifts can be shared," he says To achieve these ends, Counter, head of the foundation, has revealed a structure of six student committees and a Faculty committee that will recommend and implement Foundation actions...
...Haig in Morocco and Weinberger in Saudi Arabia and Oman were simultaneously pursuing the same objective: laying the diplomatic groundwork to secure a chain of facilities that the American Rapid Deployment Force might some day use to hopscotch from the U.S. to the Middle East on its way to counter a Soviet thrust...
...arms salesmen, and we pay cash," making it clear that the Saudis would use the AWACS any way they please. The only reply from the White House was a remark from one spokesman: "We do not regard that as an official statement." Selling arms to Jordan is supposed to counter Soviet influence in that country, but King Hussein has given no indication yet that he will cancel an order for Soviet ground-to-air missiles, even if the U.S. does provide him with similar missiles and fighters...