Word: offseting
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Featherbed service rules began to get abusive after World War I, when the unions sought to offset layoffs and share speed-up savings by stretching the work. Veteran lobbyists, they also riveted many a cumbersome and costly rule into State safety laws. Then the National Railroad Adjustment Board, founded in 1934, stuffed more down into the featherbeds. Of 7,687 Board decisions up to April 15, the unions won 61%, at least in part. Result: of 1938's $1,746,140,000 railroad pay, $120,000,000 was for 17,000,000 man-days that had never been worked...
...months away, the thousand men who signed the petition for broadcasting games are wondering just what was the outcome of the issue. By now the College realizes the consequences of a $40,000 budget slice and also is aware that three minutes of advertising per game would offset this calamity. But two months of silence have followed the last public announcement...
...Rand, Ed Edmunds, and Wally Fenn make up a midfield that has been a week point all year, but they are the only experienced men. They will feed passes to Captain Doug Anderson, Fred Benedix, and Bill Ierardi. These men all have hard shots and should score enough to offset anything the Eli has to offer...
...WESTERN UNION MONEY ORDER FOR TWENTY CENTS. PLEASE FORWARD SAME TO MATUD ODEHNAL IN PAYMENT OF THE TWENTY CENTS HE SAYS HE LOANED HITLER [TIME, April 21]. AS AN AMERICAN (OF IRISH DESCENT) I BELIEVE WE SHOULD LIVE UP TO OUR NEUTRALITY. THEREFORE THE PAYMENT OF THIS DEBT WILL OFFSET THE SEVEN BILLION WE GAVE ENGLAND...
This fact is not materially offset by the relative improvement of Britain's strength in capital ships. In the last war, Germany's battle fleet was so strong that Britain had to keep her battleships together at Scapa Flow in case of a sortie by the Germans. In this war, because Germany has few battleships and because the Italian Fleet has proved so impotent, Britain has been able to disperse her Fleet and use much of it in convoy duty. But battleships, with less speed than destroyers, are not a weapon to use against submarines...