Word: counterplan
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...Republican participants, on the other hand, felt that Reagan had demonstrated his willingness to compromise and that the Democrats really did not have a constructive counterplan. White House aides felt that the President had handled the situation deftly enough to make the Democrats share the blame for the budget deadlock. "The perception now is that the President is fair, equitable and reasonable," claimed one of Reagan's aides...
...Harvard debaters responded by proposing a two-plank counterplan in their first speech--that Richard Nixon shall resign within thirty days, and that a three-person self-perpetuation board consisting of themselves be formed to administer the presidency...
Yale refuted the counterplan with an affirmative argument that impeachment is necessary in order to preserve the balance of power...
...Harvard negative rested its case on the stand that impeachment without conviction would result in more harm than the negative counterplan...
...There's not much we can do," he said. "We don't have a counterplan to take up the slack. All Harvard can do is to express its dismay at this decision...