While the bean-counters focus on near-term profits, mass-appeal, and adjusting to every critique, the artists stay committed to creating work that matters.
Flagship "brand- store" branches may emerge, but will need to change in function away from traditional high-counter, transactional focus to low-counter, sales and service focus.
The writer Paula Milne drew inspiration from Our Friends in the North for her own White Heat (2012); she felt that Our Friends in the North had been too centred on white, male, heterosexual characters, and she deliberately wanted to counter that focus.
Mr Miliband will counter by focussing on the gap between wages and prices and promising a "recovery that reaches your kitchen table".
Counter Clockwise focuses on a study Langer conducted in which she reversed the ageing process of her subjects by making them believe they were younger.
Its organization has been damaged not only by the mishandling of the Ford Explorer Firestone disaster but also by Nasser's counter-cultural focus on things like a forced-curve performance system for employees.
The recent dismissal of the veteran Saudi intelligence chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan and his replacement by Prince Mohamed bin Nayef, who led the fight against AQ in the kingdom, reflects a sharper counter-terrorist focus created by fears of Afghan-style "blowback" from returning fighters.
Galvanized by a Massachusetts ruling on Tuesday allowing gay marriage in that state, representatives from half a dozen conservative groups met here on Wednesday to plan a national strategy to counter it, focusing their initial efforts on a federal constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
Stronger, over-the-counter creams focus on peeling the skin away layer by layer until the mole is removed.
That was followed by talk about counter-extremism focusing on integration, and then a speech on public service reform.
