Word: counterweighted
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...reworked, giving it an architectural quality. In works like “Rhymes” and “Markers,” the shadowed bowls form a visual cadence of repeated circles and jagged triangles, while the negative space is carefully framed to act as a balancing counterweight...
...Some Senate Democrats had hoped that Clinton could be a counterweight voice to Bush on issues like tax cuts when he left the White House. With Bush setting a top-line number of $1.6 trillion in cuts but letting Congress have a good bit of discretion in deciding what cuts will be included, it would have been nice to have Clinton as a voice to set the debate on what kind of cuts should be made within that $1.6 trillion. As one key Senate aide told me, "The liberals would have liked for Clinton to weigh...
...been: in Europe. But corralling them requires the old techniques: listening, bargaining, give-and-take. Of course, No. 1 can always ignore the yapping of the lesser nations and go it alone. But history offers a nasty warning. Throw your weight around, and the others will coalesce into a counterweight. This is what they used to call balance-of-power politics, a fancy word for ganging...
...Pentagon for the last 14 months of Ford's term. Now 68, the Chicago native spent six years in Congress and eight in the Nixon and Ford administrations before beginning a successful pharmaceutical career at G.D. Searle & Co. Pentagon officials and Bush see Rumsfeld as a counterweight to Colin Powell, the retired Army general tapped to run Bush's foreign policy. "General Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet, but neither is Don Rumsfeld," the President-elect said before making clear he would settle any squabbles among the trio...
...What does Bush see in Freeh? Possibly a counterweight to attorney general nominee John Ashcroft, who is backed by certain libertarian conservatives who are deeply skeptical of all government power and are determined to rein in the FBI's power to conduct wiretaps and cyber-surveillance of suspects. Freeh is classic law-and-order guy and appeals to mainstream Republicans more worried about terrorism, drug trafficking and organized crime than government snooping...