Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CARA APPROACHED the counter, did a pirhouette while screaming, "Can I have some more silvuh-way-uh please?" Buddy backed off a bit, allowing his paunch some room to move, brushed his hair back and wiped the sweat off his forehead; Jim, the boss, whistled "Lonely is a man without love" for maybe the twentieth time since the morning, picked up a butcher's knife and snapped the links holding a strand of sausage together...
...disagrees with its positions and tactics. The way to respond to Jerry Falwell and his followers is not to discourage moral discussion, but rather to foster more intelligent debate--"not less moralizing, but better moralizing," as Will put it. But Will himself offered the best argument to counter his contention that government should impose moral standards. In discussing prayer in public schools, he said that while he found nothing wrong with it, he opposed it on the grounds that it was "too divisive." In a country as diverse culturally and religiously as the United States, any set code of morals...
...upwardly mobile" addicts. "They are the shooters who think they can beat the game--white collar workers using heroin only occasionally, just enough to keep going, and frequently mixing with other drugs," says Vic Gelineau, head of the Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation. Rather than taking root in a counter-culture and espousing alienation from the establishment, the modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most of their peers are content to turn and look the other way." Gelineau points out that in most large companies, alcohol...
...issue is the 1979 NATO decision to deploy 572 U.S.-built Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe as a counter to some 320 Soviet SS-20 missiles currently targeted on European cities. In addition, the peace movement reacted angrily to Ronald Reagan's announcement last month that the U.S. would produce neutron weapons that may ultimately be deployed in Europe...
...establishment of white supremacy and ridding the campus of "Chinks, Gooks and Niggers." The rally was scheduled for the same afternoon the posters appeared. The University administration issued a statement that any students attending the Utopia rally would be arrested on the spot. Progressive student organizations immediately organized a counter-demonstration to the Utopian rally: three hundred people attended. Subsequently, one of the speakers (and possibly two more), a Black man from the People's Gay Alliance (PGA) received death threats, informing him that he had only a week to live...