Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will have a fight on his hands. A number of his competitors have indicated that they are developing special waiting-room plans of their own. One counter-move Whittle anticipates is that publishers may start offering doctors complimentary subscriptions. If so, he is ready to supply his Special Reports at no charge as well. That is hardly the issue. In a profession in which six-figure incomes are the rule, the cost of magazines has never been a big item...
Administrators counter that since Harvard improved the plan in response to a 1986 employee survey, those concerns have been addressed...
...fighting sexism, Bem suggested setting counter-examples for children in the home by having both parents equally share household responsibilities...
...provide a 7% resale royalty on some art works fetching $1,000 or more. In this age of the $53.9 million Van Gogh, that would allow artists whose works increase in value -- always just a fraction of the profession -- to get a piece of the collector's profits. Critics counter that a similar provision in California's law has merely driven the sale of art off the books or out of state...
Some Latin American officials go further, laying the entire blame for their drug problems on the U.S. "If there wasn't any demand in the U.S.," says Colombian Justice Minister Enrique Low Murtra, "it wouldn't be grown and produced here." U.S. officials counter that it is illegal production that gives rise to consumption. But such finger pointing, satisfying as it might be, is increasingly hollow. While the U.S. is without question the world's biggest market for narcotics, some of the drug-exporting countries are developing a taste for the goods. In Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, consumption of basuco...