Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...local TV commercials and direct mail. In Abilene, for example, where B-1 bombers are based, the G.O.P. will charge incorrectly that Dukakis may scrap the program; messages beamed to the predominantly Roman Catholic Hispanics in the Rio Grande Valley will stress Bush's opposition to abortion. Dukakis will counter by assailing the Administration's "borrow-and-spend" economics and accuse it of failing the oil-and-gas industry. He is further appealing to conservative values by blasting the Republicans' failure to win the war on drugs...
Ferguson contends that America's most consistently successful and advanced industries, notably aerospace and chemicals, have been dominated by a few giant companies. (Gilder might cite as a counter-example RCA, which squandered its technological heritage by investing in such diversions as carpetmaking and rental cars.) High-tech corporations, says Ferguson, need a heavy capital base to pay for research, computer networks, manufacturing systems and worldwide organizations for sales and customer support. Upstart U.S. firms, too small to bankroll their own factories, often turn to Japanese companies for manufacturing help or sell their key technologies to raise capital for expansion...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact. Discrimination on the basis of the blood tests may actually harm public health, they warn. "If you fear you are going to lose your job and just about everything else in your life," says Katherine Franke of the New York City Human Rights Commission, "there is no incentive to take...
...class action against Chubb. In most states, insurance laws dictate that coverage cannot be canceled once the initial premium is paid. Among Chubb's defenses: it did not realize that Good Weather agents had oversold the policies, mostly within two days of the deadline, without permission. But the plaintiffs counter that Chubb, which specializes in up-scale homeowners' and commercial insurance, has been in the business for more than a century and should know how to monitor demand. Insurance authorities in at least five states are considering whether to seek revocation of Chubb's licenses to write insurance in their...
...grip on the club, get a grip on yourself. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers goes back to 1744 and leather golf balls filled with boiled feathers. But the club still hasn't got around to building a pro shop. Modern ammunition can be purchased at the tobacco counter in the dining room, the nerve center of the operation.The custom is to play 18 holes, dress up for lunch, then play 18 more...