Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dulled up" to sound more like a typical presidential commission's findings. Meanwhile, Reagan's speechwriters pre-emptively embraced the commission's findings with some hedged language. "Wherever the commission's recommendations point the way to greater executive effectiveness, I will implement them," Reagan stated, "even if they run counter to the will of entrenched bureaucracies and special interests." Allowed one White House aide: "The Packard commission is a train we either jump on or get run over...
...Under a counter-protest by Army's Coll Haddon, who swam in the other lane adjacent to Sprout without difficulty, the decision was later overturned and the race declared official with Haddon the winner in 20.44 seconds. Harvard's Keith Kaplan finished in a three-way tie for second...
...advertisement infringes on free speech. Not really, for advertising is not free speech, and, in any case, the Playboy ad is not an opinion. As one editor noted at Sunday's in-house discussion of the ad issue, one must be able to disagree with an opinion, and the counter-argument to the Playboy solicitation is "No, a Playboy photographer will not be at the Somerville Holiday Inn this week...
...pull the ad, satisfied with their victory, have not bothered to take their case to the rest of the Harvard population. Ironically, now that The Crimson's pages are pure, no one seems terribly worried about convincing women who might want to pose that what they're doing runs counter to everything for which women at Harvard and elsewhere have been fighting for decades...
Johnson & Johnson's sudden decision prompted the pharmaceutical industry to re-examine its widespread use of over-the-counter capsules, which now include dozens of preparations ranging from Contac decongestant to Dexatrim diet formula. But as the industry sent its packaging experts to Washington last week for an emergency meeting with Food and Drug Administration officials, most companies said that they would keep on using capsules...