Word: counteract
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khrushchev has attempted to counteract the enormous imbalance between heavy industry and consumption that marked the Stalin regime. Bergson feels, however, that Khrushchev's goal of surpassing United States consumption cannot be realized...
Movement to counteract this apathy of the nation must start either at the grass roots or from the strong call of the President, he maintained, "but Eisenhower has fallen right into the complacent mood of the country...
...eggs in cold storage went rotten, the department, in desperation, turned to buying dried eggs, stored tons of them in a cave near Atchison, Kans. By the time the Government decided in 1953 that supporting egg prices hurt even the farmers, by encouraging the overproduction it was intended to counteract, total taxpayer losses passed $331 million...
Monro is currently working with the College Scholarship Service to organize both public and private colleges "to counteract this stigma." This mutual effort would involve recruitment of students from low-income districts through visits by college admissions officers...
...found even in geniuses. The technique of isolating certain elements for criticism is never used to praise an author or defend a position, but is common when breaking down a work of art. Many students are more delighted to discover error than beauty, and find it difficult to counteract this when they have to sustain a long thesis that is something other than adverse criticism. Even the moderate position removes emotional response as a criterion for evaluation, relying solely on theoretically objective tests that are often based on standards more arbitrary and less reliable than the emotions themselves. This withdrawal...