Word: offseting
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...necessary speed is somewhat less than 25,000 m.p.h. because the earth's gravitational pull grows weaker with distance. To reach the moon requires slightly less speed than to escape entirely, since the moon is not at an infinite distance and because its own gravitational pull can offset the earth's diminishing pull if the rocket gets close enough. When Pioneer had risen above the atmosphere, it was moving at 23,500 m.p.h. This was not quite enough...
...personal income. ¶Farmers are especially sensitive to the inflationary effects of big-labor wage boosts and to Senate revelations of union corruption, and this may well be a sleeper issue working in the Republicans' favor. Yet in Kansas, Ohio and Colorado, the labor issue has been somewhat offset because right-to-work proposals appear on the ballot-to the distress of Republican candidates and the delight of Democrats, because right-to-work prompts organized labor to spend vast amounts of money in registration drives that usually work to Democratic advantage...
...Political v. pastoral Pope. In Vatican history the two types have often alternated, and since Pius XII was a diplomat who never had a parish of his own, there may be pressure for a pastoral candidate. This may be offset by the desire of the Vatican's Curia cardinals to keep tight central control...
This substantially well balanced quartet is partially offset by the Lehigh forward wall, for the Engineers are basically an offensive squad. Weaknesses at guard and tackle present tentativelly unsolved problems for Leckonby...
...Dean explained that the honors program is not so large as Harvard's since from the beginning the girls have small classes, and there is not so much a need to offset large classes with individual work such as tutorial...