Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Meany derides "people who build houses with their mouths." "Romney," he says, "has a fixation in his mind that you can turn out houses off a factory line like you turn out cars." But factory production of houses and room-sized components is an increasingly successful way to offset rising costs-in areas where unions and local laws allow such industrial methods to be used. U.S. Steel, Boise Cascade, National Homes, Guerdon Industries, Crane Co., Borg-Warner and many other firms have entered the field with ready-to-use rooms, baths or entire house sections...
These awards helped to offset the disappointment of the NCAA selection of teams for the District I playoffs. Coach John J. Connelly, chairman of the selection committee, announced yesterday that Boston University and the University of Massachusetts will play each other at Amherst the weekend of May 31 for the right to represent New England in the NCAA World Series in Omaha...
...fought hard, too; John Ince, for example. At one point in the fourth period, Ince, who is not always eager to mix it up with the big boys, knocked Yale's much larger Carl Bates out of bounds to give the Crimson the ball. But such positive elements were offset by other less desirable things. Some might have noticed the number of hasty shots taken by the second midfield...
Closing the Loopholes. To offset part of that loss, Nixon would close some of the controversial loopholes used by the wealthy to avoid taxes. The most spectacular item is a proposed limit on tax preferences-or LTP, as alphabet-minded Washington dubbed it. It would place a 50% ceiling on the amount of a taxpayer's income above $10,000 that is eligible for favored treatment. Income would have to include the appreciated value of property donated to charity, and the ceiling would restrict the amount of deductions that a taxpayer could take for 1) oil-depletion allowances...
...Fellows' speculation hinted at an idea that must have been obvious to anyone watching the Corporation last spring. Harvard did not just need another Fellow member to beef up the Corporation's membership. It needed a new kind of Fellow to offset the Corporation's Eastern-financier image, which was already coming under attack last year...