He said surfing had helped him counteract the sometimes unhealthy lifestyle — long hours and all those calories — that working in the food industry brings.
He kept an aquarium full of goldfish in his office to calm him and counteract his frequent angry run-ins with the management.
In an uncanny echo of the concerns of Lucía Pinochet, Allende explained that she had established a Salvador Allende Foundation to "teach the youth of today about my father's ideals of social justice" and to counteract the misinformation about him propagated during the Pinochet years.
They were mainly over me, him attempting to counteract her unending need to indulge me with what little money we did have.
As the danseur in the adagio of a classical pas de deux discreetly extends the leaps of the ballerina, the silk supports him, counteracting the pull of earth.
His own lawyers met him in pairs to counteract his lying, court documents show.
"The whole strategy was predicated on using mass communication and free media to counteract the paid media attacks on him, which worked pretty good, to my surprise," one longtime adviser told me.
Mr. Gore said he wanted to help Mr. Kerry counteract the accusations being leveled against him by the Bush campaign, which has been sharply questioning the senator's national security credentials.
The Hollywood Reporter described it as a "beautifully photographed" work that "lets its subject speak for himself, even when his words and behavior tend to counteract the filmmakers' apparent affection for him".
Even worse for the president, three years of tax cuts and war have left him with virtually no policy tools to counteract economic weakness in the near term.
