1.   Be prepared to counter these tendencies and help the complainer work toward solutions.

2.   Exercise, even as little as a walk every day, may counter our tendency to gain weight, Levitsky said.

3.   Insurers will try, as they must, to counter the tendency of quality-of-life drugs to redefine abnormality upward.

4.   It is seen by someas a move to counter environmentalist tendencies of the current court.

5.   Latin American countries should create independent boards with veto powers over outlays to counter a tendency to overspend, said the chief economist of the Inter-American Development Bank.

6.   Wheat prices were flat, with early selling by funds countering any tendency to rise in lockstep with other farm commodities.