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  • Adam sez, Counterpoint is a think tank, sponsored by the partially government-funded British Council.

    Boing Boing: September 24, 2006 - September 30, 2006 Archives 2006

  • Woodward, resorting to the use of such ideas as “social distance” and “physical distance” derived from the fields of sociology and comparative history, stressed that such concepts should be applied in any future study of race relations and Jim Crow laws in America; see his chapter in American Counterpoint Boston, 1971, pp.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • Woodward, resorting to the use of such ideas as “social distance” and “physical distance” derived from the fields of sociology and comparative history, stressed that such concepts should be applied in any future study of race relations and Jim Crow laws in America; see his chapter in American Counterpoint Boston, 1971, pp.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • A 2010 commentary called "Counterpoint: Artificial legs do not make artificially fast running speeds possible," published in the same journal , Dr. Rodger Kram, an associate professor of integrative physiology at the University of Colorado, and his colleagues, wrote that there was "insufficient evidence" to conclude Pistorius' blades provided an advantage.

    Breaking News: CBS News 2011

  • She joins Vaughan, the EMP live trance producer, presenting an electro-fusion duo called Counterpoint at Fashion TV.

    Tonight 2009

  • She joins Vaughan, the EMP live trance producer, presenting an electro-fusion duo called Counterpoint at Fashion TV.

    Tonight 2009

  • Jack Kenny, however, is a staunch right-wing Republican (he used to run the Republican Club in Reston), and his column runs weekly as a "Counterpoint" sort of thing.

    Disgusting Column 2006

  • In a later work on "Counterpoint" he used for chapter headings Greek vases and other decorative designs, to stimulate the ideal of counterpoint as a unified complexity of graceful contours.

    Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

  • TV watchers in the 1970s knew Kilpatrick as the conservative half of the ". Counterpoint" segment of the CBS program "60 Minutes."

    NEWS ON 6 - News 2010

  • On April 12th, 2010 ABC Radio National's "Counterpoint" host Michael Duffy decided to weigh in on the truth of the 9/11 events.

    - 911truth.org 2010

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