Word: countering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where? While the G's, dressed down like tourists, students and street people, kept their eyes on the Russian agent, a second team of FBI agents and personnel from the State Department's office of diplomatic security was covertly scouring the department with a Geiger-counter-size debugging device. An inch-by-inch search of the first through sixth floors yielded nothing. Then a few weeks ago, investigators found a tiny microphone-transmitter on the seventh floor, a short walk from "Mahogany Row," the ornate suite occupied by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top advisers...
David L. Evans, a senior admissions officer, views the situation more starkly, likening the job of an admissions officer to that of a "card counter in Vegas...
...Much more clubhouse than gallery, Zeitgeist provides all counter-cultural necessities: vegetarian potluck dinners on Mondays, poetry readings on Mondays, figure drawing on Wednesdays, jazz on Thursdays and improvisational jazz on Fridays. The director says that he likes multimedia art and installations, preferably "non-traditional" and "politically involved." Currently showing are garish, clumsy paintings by David Grossack and Michael Hallaren. A billboard on the side of the Harvest Co-op in Central Square ("The Zeitgeist Artboard: Gallery of the People's Republic of Cambridge") offers additional exhibition space for local artists...
...walk to Cabot K, Tad insists he is not an attractive person and does not get women, but the three of us counter that the shuttle does not lie. He claims it must be the shirt. "I bought this new shirt. This is the first new shirt I've bought since eighth grade or something...
After the second Brown goal, the Bears stepped up their play even more, and Harvard was unable to counter...