Word: offseting
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...What about Minnesota? Said Kefauver: "Well, I concede that things are pretty well stacked against me, apparently, but I have been receiving an awful lot of requests from rank-and-file people to enter. I will have to evaluate whether I have enough rank-and-file strength to offset the big bloc of political strength which has gotten behind Mr. Stevenson...
FREIGHT-RATE INCREASE is in the offing. A presidential fact-finding committee has recommended a 16½? hourly package increase for 750,000 nonoperating employees (their present average hourly pay: $1.78). To offset rising wage and material costs, U.S. railroads will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to okay a 7% freight-rate boost...
Thereafter, all the decorative oddities, all the artificial-comedy attitudes of The Chalk Garden prove a legitimate contrast and offset to a certain muted reality. Not without cost has the companion achieved a green thumb for people as well as plants, where the other characters all show gloved or clammy hands; not without reason has she been able to make things grow in a garden built on chalk...
...national security, which makes up 61% of the budget. For the first three months of fiscal 1956, U.S. military spending alone was at a $36.1 billion annual rate, some $2.1 billion more than originally figured in the revised budget last August. The increased outlay for defense, however, is offset by sharp drops in other phases of the national security program. The military phases of the mutual security program for U.S. allies abroad are currently running some $1.2 billion below the $2.1 billion August estimate. Beyond that, the Atomic Energy Commission is spending less than its budget, while purchases...
...anti-Christian forces dominating the leadership introduced into the churches by the suburban captivity far offset the numerical and financial gains . . . The captivity of the church is a national tragedy of the first order, for it occurs at a time when America's position of world leadership requires a prophetic church at home . . . [It] may well be God's word of judgment upon us as his church. For our trespasses and complacency, we have been delivered to Babylon...