Officials in Bush's press office counter that the governor passed the state's largest tax cut bill, which reduced homeowners' property taxes through cutting local school property taxes.

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Both properties were disdained by analysts and chewed up in the financial press, potent counter intuitive positive leading indicators.

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The volunteer was then supposed to record, using a press-button counter, the number of times he perceived the insect moving on his skin.

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Mr Obama, for his part, was right to press for more funds to counter what would otherwise have been a contractionary cutting-off of unemployment benefits and tax breaks for the poorest.

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Cyprus continued to press but nearly fell to a classic counter-attack as Joe Ledley's incisive pass sent Craig Bellamy through on goal.

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But these boundaries have been blurred at least since 1929, when Ramsay Macdonald put George Steward in Downing Street with orders to cultivate selected journalists and so counter the bias of the Tory press barons.

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"Having looked at the facts, they could see that I was totally and completely unfairly misrepresented in the mainstream press, but at least the internet and bloggers provided a truthful counter-balance, " she wrote.

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Unfortunately, a close look at Olmert's counter-terror measures makes clear that, no, in spite of the wailing of the international press corps, and the whining of the State Department and its European and Russian counterparts, in fact, Olmert still refuses to get it.

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