Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...heads of government also issued a joint statement calling for the resumption of the Jarring Arab-Israeli talks. And they conferred about this week's U.S. decision to establish a small air-naval-and-communications base on the British-held atoll of Diego Garcia to help offset the Soviet Union's growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean...
...economy, if its resources of manpower and plant had been fully utilized.* Retail sales foundered, and corporate profit margins retreated to their lowest level in twelve years. The nation's real output of goods and services declined about .2%. That happened because the 5.3% price inflation more than offset the 5.1% growth of gross national product...
...came much closer than a lot of people expected. His strategy called for him to cut slightly into the Republican majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a large enough majority to offset the Cape, and win. He lost because he did not break even in strongly Republican Plymouth County, where Keith's smear attempts-distributed by local Republicans in "Studds Sheets"-undoubtedly had an effect...
Regardless of how Harvard plays defense, it should manhandle Springfield on the boards. The Chiefs have only two big men, and with effective screening on the defensive boards and aggressive play on the offensive boards, the Crimson could offset Springfield's back-court play by Waterman and 6' junior Dana Anderson...
...stiffened. Fuel costs have nearly tripled in the past year, mainly because of turmoil in the Middle East and increased tanker charges, but the most crushing expense for American shipowners is still labor. U.S. merchant sailors generally earn twice as much or more than their foreign counterparts. To help offset the wage differential-and keep American passengers' fares out of foreign coffers -the Government since 1936 has paid a generous annual subsidy on each U.S. passenger ship for the first 20 years of its life. The regal United States, for example, received $12 million a year from the Maritime...