Word: countering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campuses do begin to boil again this fall, however, Congressional reaction may be somewhat milder than it would have been a year ago. Even some conservative members of both parties appear to have decided that new, tough legislation might be counter-productive; this change in viewpoint is credited with helping to stop anti-riot bills over the summer...
There are pitfalls. The newspaper can easily become a propaganda tool, tailoring facts to its own ends or giving play to only one ideology. This only leads in the end to a struggle based on misconception. Thus, the newspaper becomes counter-revolutionary, since only awareness of political reality will bring about revolution...
...smaller departments, Professor of German Jack M. Stein wonders: "Is there not then a danger that these will become even smaller and the larger ones even larger?" Professor Samuel P. Huntington suggests that the once dominant academic culture is being supplanted at Harvard by a new "political-activist" counter-culture...
Bias Against Investment. The Administration's aim, Secretary Kennedy explained to a mostly hostile committee, is to counter the House bill's "bias against investment in favor of consumption." That favoritism, he complained, "could impede economic growth by curtailing the incentive to make productive investments." Accordingly, said Kennedy, Congress should cut taxes on individuals by only $4.8 billion a year instead of $7.3 billion, and the total corporate tax intake should rise by only $3.5 billion instead of $4.9 billion. "We simply do not know enough about the future to commit ourselves" to any larger tax cuts...
...wheat has piled up this year that producing nations are locked in a price war as they fight to get rid of their oversupply. The U.S., which allowed prices to sag last winter, has now reduced its wheat export prices three times within the past two months to counter cuts by Canada, Australia and France. The major wheat exporting nations are meeting this week in London, but despite their efforts, no agreement on a way to end the price cutting seems to be in sight...