Word: offseting
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This was fortunately offset by the remarkable Doolittle family. Rosemary Harris, as Eliza, and Max Adrian, as her father, rescued the first act, and then proceeded to steal the show in the final acts...
...fight that Lady Rhondda started did not end there, though few besides her could get much worked up over belonging to a parliamentary anachronism which can delay legislation, but cannot prevent it. The leveling Labor Party wanted to abolish the House of Lords altogether. Finally, early this year, to offset Labor's objections, the Tories pushed through a bill to give the House of Lords new blood by the creation of life peers, both male and female, whose descendants would not be titled. * Their children would be addressed as "The Honorable." As for the husband of any new lady...
...Oregon's one-of-a-kind Democratic Senator Wayne Morse roadblocked the Administration's passport bill designed to offset the Supreme Court's ruling that, under existing legislation, the State Department may not deny passports to U.S. citizens on the grounds of beliefs or associations (TIME, June 30). Denouncing it as an "inexcusable attack on constitutional guarantees," Morse stalled the bill in the Foreign Relations Committee under the rule requiring unanimous consent for a committee to meet while the Senate is in session...
...which gets only 200,000 bbl. daily from the Middle East, few oilmen would propose a dramatic increase in domestic production to offset loss of the Iraq supply. They are wary of repeating their mistake during the Suez crisis, when they amassed stores of oil so large that production had to be chopped back hard this year. Last week the Texas Railroad Commission boosted the number of producing days in August from nine to eleven, but made it clear that the hike was due to a slight rise in petroleum demand and a reduction of oil inventories rather than...
...prospect for a solution under de Gaulle to these two pressing French dilemmas is partially offset in many minds by apprehension as to the future of French democracy under the Cross of Lorraine. De Gaulle's demand for six months of decree powers, some claim, is only a foretaste of a stern dictatorship backed up by the brute force of the military. The general's past political record, however, has been one of strict adherence to constitutional forms, even in the face of bitter frustration. In 1946, when it became clear that the Constitution would make the Presidency meaningless...