Word: offseting
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With that war's unprecedented mobilization of national resources to offset blockade, governments learned new economic tricks and developed new appetites for control "in the national interest." Under the pinch of depression in the 1930s. governments manipulated their currencies to shape foreign trade. Counter-manipulation led to government control of imports & exports, and then to still more currency manipulation...
...small and middle-sized powers made a little progress-a very little-in their efforts to win a larger share of authority in the forthcoming world organization. But every move to spread the power among all the member nations was offset by a move to limit its actual use by or against any nation, big or small. At the showdowns, the U.S. was as sensitive...
...course of other persistent researches, Dr. Stearns's longhairs, working closely with thoughtful airmen, devised new flying formations to intensify B-29 gunfire. They developed greater bombing accuracy with a new technique of offset sighting, worked out fuel-consumption curves that greatly increased 6-29 range and bomb-carrying capacity...
...meeting will not be a debate, but merely a discussion to cover all phases of the question and draw some conclusions. Normally the three would offset each other, for Compton and Carmichael are both reputed to be mildly for the draft...
Sense to Stalin. Only Joseph Stalin could answer the prime question: what was Russia after? At Yalta, he had argued that Russia needed extra votes to offset Britain's six (the United Kingdom, four dominions, India). And he had pointed out, unanswerably, that India was no more independent than the 16 quasi-autonomous Soviet Republics...