Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defense (DIVAD) gun had become a symbol of a procurement process gone haywire. After the Pentagon spent $1.8 billion and ten years developing the tank-mounted, radar-guided gun, field tests showed that it had trouble hitting a hovering helicopter. The fiasco left the Army without a weapon to counter the Soviets' high-performance aircraft and growing fleet of nimble helicopters. Some reformers urged the Army to consider simpler and more reliable weapons, perhaps a version of the existing Rapier or the Roland missile systems. But the Army decided otherwise. Enter FAAD (for forward-area air-defense system...
Just the other day, scientists made a great discovery: that exposure to controlled amounts of light can counter the effects of jet lag. The media pounced on the results and by the end of the day, nearly every major radio station in Boston had broadcast the miraculous discovery. "No more jet lag," the announcers promised...
Some suspicious citizens think their government has more in mind than the interdiction of drug manufacturing. "We keep hearing that there might be another coup," Victor Casasola, 53, whispers conspiratorially from behind the counter of his dress shop. "I think the government called in the gringo troops to protect itself from a military coup...
...nurse practitioners do not pretend to be doctors. They generally restrict themselves to performing routine tests, treating minor ailments and suggesting over-the-counter medications. Even so, they can spare patients many costly trips to the doctor, and they often make house calls. These nurses are especially helpful to the elderly and people with chronic diseases, who may need close watching but not always by a physician...
...case of the bombing of the disco in Berlin, the counter-evidence is particularly strong: e.g. the unlikelihood of Qaddafi ordering a terrorist act against a nightclub frequented by Muslims and black U.S. GIs, Libya's explicit denial of compliance in the action and condemnation of it, and the fact that a German neo-Nazi organization claimed responsibility shortly afterwards...