Word: countervail
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Tutorial and the House system are supposed to countervail the size and impersonality of the University with a degree of personal contact and intimacy. The Houses, now with an average population of 400 students, two-thirds more than the number originally intended, have become little more than overcrowded dormitories; there is no excuse for such waste of what might have been Harvard's most attractive feature...
...year career as an agent in the pay of the Soviet Union, Paâques argued, had been nothing more than a clandestine political seminar, an effort to explain the intricacies of French policy. By filling the Russians in on Western military strength, he also felt he could countervail the "excess of weight" of the Anglo-Saxons-particularly the U.S.-in Europe and Africa, and perhaps prevent war based on miscalculation...
...cost much more money, it would seem, than the prospective development by the Soviet Union of a way to circumvent it. The chief objection to a shelter program, and there are others which Mr. Cowan implied, thus emerges as economic. It would cost more money to construct than to countervail...