Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rapidly gentrifying Harvard Square world of smooth shiny-clean boutiques, the skinheads represent the counter-culture, and they are proud...
...effects of that horrific bulletin can plunge thousands of American lives into a maelstrom. Desperate ticket-counter pleas. Improvised sleeping arrangements. Long-distance calls to explain that you are in Wichita with no plausible hope of joining the family around the festive stuffed turkey...
...hardly new. Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Club was conceived in part to help promote Disneyland, and even critically acclaimed shows like Sesame Street have toy spin-offs. Nor, say industry spokesmen, does a hit show necessarily mean a stream of kids lining up at the toy counter. NBC's The Smurfs, for example, is one of Saturday morning's top-rated children's shows, but the like-named toys have not been big sellers...
...counter that perception, Aquino has visited N.P.A. war zones, raised military pay to quiet the restive soldiers, delivered tough-sounding speeches and demanded that radical labor unions end their strikes and obey back-to-work court orders. Aquino can claim some credit for this year's expected 5% rate of economic growth, an impressive figure after three years of negative and near zero expansion. Yet the resurgent economy has only begun to replenish the depleted treasury. Aquino's attempts to run an efficient government and an effective war against the N.P.A. are hampered by a lack of funds. An expected...
...military uprisings swirl, the Communists have begun to show their hand in the capital, infiltrating its unruly confines with small assassination squads known as Sparrow units, so called for their small size and great mobility. This year more than 150 policemen and soldiers have been killed. To counter the hit squads, Manila police -- with Aquino's reluctant approval -- have organized gangs of vigilantes to drive out the Communists. Last week more than 4,000 Manila residents signed up for duty. Those who are accepted will be issued weapons and given training. The Communists are fighting back. Police last week found...