Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this done, the Administration must now decide on a longer-range strategy to counter the Soviet Union's initiatives in Central and Southwestern Asia. "Act tough" was the predictable advice offered by one of Peking's diplomats at the U.N. "Teach the Soviets a lesson, that's what you've got to do," said he, making a karate chop. "If you don't, the big bear reaches out for more." But overreaction could be as dangerous as retreat. Not only might too bellicose an American policy provoke a superpower confrontation, but it would greatly concern U.S. allies situated near...
...addition, the official Soviet news agency Tass said yesterday in a dispatch from Kabul that an American Roman Catholic mission in the capital had been functioning as an "underground center" for recruiting "counter-revolutionary agents" to circulate "subversive literature. "Tass said the mission was part of the American cultural center run by the U.S. Embassy...
...rise of a student movement never emerged." He spoke a moment too soon. It was all coming together: the escalating, attention-getting tactics of the civil rights movement; the new wholesale liberation through the birth-control pill from traditional sexual patterns; and the growth of a hedonistic, re-programming counter-culture among the young...
Students take the pills to suppress exam-time jitters, and actors pop them to relieve stage fright. Lonely housewives rely on them to get through empty days, and narcotics addicts use them to counter withdrawal symptoms. Valium, the ubiquitous tranquilizer that has been on the market for 17 years, has also benefited its developer, Switzerland's F. Hoffmann-La Roche & Co. It remains the world's largest selling prescription drug; in the U.S., which accounts for some 40% of Roche's $1.4 billion pharmaceutical sales, doctors write 44 million prescriptions for it each year...
...example, E.O. Wilson has stated that in any future society, women will never play as great a role as men in business, politics and Science (NY Times Magazine, Oct. 12, 1975). In response to criticisms of this point, he has subsequently suggested that societies may be able to counter the supposed biologically programmed sex-role differences, but at the cost of placing "some personal freedoms in jeopardy." (On Human Nature) On Human Nature and other texts are replete with the political and social consequences of sociobiological theory. To call the link between sociobiology and reactionary political ideas (such as sexism...