Word: counter
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...reason is not because they wear brightly colored clothes and we all wear black. The reason is not because they are the only ones who patronize three card monte dealers in Times Square. The reason is not even that you can't get close to a counter in Saks Fifth Avenue to buy your wife a Christmas present...
...presided over Russia's catastrophic economic and social decline, Boris Yeltsin has now been replaced by a president with ambitions to restore Moscow?s big-power status. And President Vladimir Putin is quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions that run counter to U.S. interests on the world stage - rebuilding Soviet-era relationships from Baghdad to Havana, openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country?s arms industry. Only...
...favor of Clinton's policy, and one of his key advisers gave notice that a Bush administration would be happy to escalate U.S. support for a military effort to end guerrilla control over those territories ceded by Andres Pastrana's government. But expanding U.S. involvement there may run counter to the stay-at-home instincts of the Pentagon. Expect an increasing number of articles containing the words Colombia and Vietnam...
...architects of Cleveland's program counter that city parents are in no way encouraged to send their kids to religious schools. Parents can choose public magnet or charter schools, which are free and get far more funding per pupil than voucher schools. For this reason, says Clint Bolick, lead lawyer for a group of parents defending the program, "there's actually a disincentive to choose the voucher schools." Bolick argues that if you include magnet and charter schools in the equation, only 16.5% of parents who exercise educational choice send their kids to religious schools...
...Morning Again? spell cast by Ronald Reagan inspired such counter-culture phenomenoms as Kurt Cobain and Spike...