Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hitters in the Brown starting line-up (which had seven lefties to counter the right-handed Kevin Curtin) collected one or more hits in the night...
...turn of the century, more intercollegiate sports than any other Division I school in the country. Despite this apparent heresy, Harvard is still regarded as a great university. According to Kurzman, "It's a shame we can't have our fun and be taken seriously too." I would counter that it's a shame Kurzman can't have fun. No measure of success by our athletic teams can do anything to detract from Harvard's reputation. If nothing else, success such as that enjoyed by the hockey team creates a greater respect for Harvard students. It shows us as individuals...
Wuthering Heights operates counter to this scheme, making the show seem self-indulgent. The actors, particularly Glucksman, are having a blast, as they act the Tom Cruise fantasy scene with loud music, costumes, and a crowd. But the audience is less happy, trapped in someone else's dream without the requisite backdrops and richness of scenery that might be needed to carry the fantasy to reality...
...sentiments were noble in intention, if condescending in conception. But Wilson's gravest mistake was in his determination of how to "properly direct" the Mexicans. His policy of supporting an armed resistance to a nearby regime he disliked was not only politically illegitimate and morally questionable, it was also counter-productive. As one historian wrote, "Wilson's assumptions about how to effect change in Latin nations [were] greatly flawed; he especially underestimated the vigor and resistance to external guidance of revolutionary nationalism...
Defense lawyers counter that the poison in the wells came not from their factories but from the nearby Aberjona River, whose banks are lined with industries that have dumped wastes for a century. Lawyer Michael Keating argued that the soil under the Grace Cryovac plant was too dense to allow seepage...