Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vote came after a three-day debate on the measure, which sponsors said was needed to counter the record trade deficit last year and resulting layoffs. It calls for retaliation against unfair tactics by foreign competitors and would require import curbs for threatened industries...
...screens. Those signals revealed abnormally high levels of radiation, a sure sign of serious trouble. At first suspecting difficulties in their own reactors, the engineers searched frantically for a leak. When they found nothing, they lined up some 600 workers at the plant and tested them with a Geiger counter. This time the signals were even more alarming: the workers' clothing gave off radiation far above contamination levels. Outside, monitors took Geiger counter readings of the soil and greenery surrounding the plant. The result showed four to five times the normal amount of radioactive emissions. Clearly, something was wrong -- terribly...
Walking into a typically sleazy roadside bar, Billy struts up to the counter, asks for a Bud, downs it, and hands the bar maid $2.00. "That's for the beer," he says, flourishing a dollar bill," and that's for the beer...
Cronin said that airports, including Logan,have taken several steps to increase security,including more handchecking of luggage andincreased patrols in the "peripheral areas of theairport." But he warned that security at mostairports was "probably not sufficient to counter adedicated professional terrorist...
...question of how specifically to cope with terrorism, Reagan acknowledged that the three day summit did not bring all he'd hoped for. Lingering differences among the summit nations over counter-terrorist strategy surfaced on the conference's final...