Word: counterstep
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...more than 30 reporters stood a freezing round-the-clock watch, hired special radio-equipped cars, guarded every entrance and pounced on every lead for news of May's release. But for every step the newsmen took, the Home Office, which runs Britain's prisons, took a counterstep to thwart them. "It is undesirable," said the Home Office, "that a prisoner should be subjected to undue publicity at the moment of release. As extraordinary steps were taken to give May such publicity, it was necessary to take suitable steps to safeguard...
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