Word: offseting
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...brand-new book, and it's hard to say which seems older. There is no question which seems pleasanter: the tunes borrowed from Victor Herbert's The Fortune Teller and The Serenade are melodious and nicely sung. But they are not quite pleasant enough to offset the damp-towel libretto or save an evening...
...from the manpower pool remaining after the draft-exempt had been siphoned off, the Army expected to get 200,000 draftees by the time the new law expires in April. With a prospect of 150,000 re-enlistments and volunteers to help offset discharges, the Army thought it could just about meet its authorized April strength...
...atomic armament race with the U.S.S.R.; 2) the U.S. with its concentrated seaboard metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems to have for masses of people throughout the world...
...concluded Mr. Voorhees: "It is clear that wage rises have greatly exceeded the production required to offset them and hence must be covered in an abnormal price rise. But the first abnormal wage and price rise starts a wave of other increases. You can see it coming today in thousands of items. And then where are we? We are on our way to the final squeeze by the customer-for the customer always has his own ceiling price...
Chrysler Corp. reported a substantial first-quarter loss last week of $8,400,000, offset an even higher percentage of it ($7,200,000) with expected tax recoveries. But Chrysler President K. T. Keller was not very cheerful about the future. Said he: "The prospect for any substantial increase in the rate of production [now 50% of capacity] . . . is not good...