Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface, an Eastern-TWA union seems sensible because TWA's East-West routes could offset seasonal fluctuations on Eastern's North-South runs. But TWA has two heavy handicaps: it lost an estimated $15 million last year, and it is 78% owned by eccentric Howard Hughes, who, though he was forced by financiers last year to put his stock in trusteeship in return for a loan of $165 million, can still stir up a lot of turbulence...
Apparently intending these adornments to offset his central theme and prove that life has at least two sides, Author Rosten has ended up with a novel that suffers from cute appendicitis. Captain Newman, M.D. is really two books, intertwined like medicine's caduceus, at its best considerably better than The Snake Pit, at its worst a fun-house chortle hollowly echoing See Here, Private Hargrove...
...Complete Handbook of Stone Printing, he told all his secrets, and thus, just as Gutenberg fathered the great industry of printing from type, Senefelder gave the world the basic process widely used in offset printing (though now usually from zinc plates rather than stone). But beyond its commercial uses, the lithograph has been especially dear to the artist. Through this medium, he can spread his message wide and yet know that no matter how many copies are made, each lithograph will retain his personal touch...
...product that could compete with European industry." The nearest thing to unanimous opposition to the Kennedy program was heard among businessmen in the South - partly because much of the South's burgeoning new industry moved there to escape high wage costs elsewhere and fears that lower tariffs will offset any gains they made by moving...
...most likely reason for Burns's exit appears to have been his close identification with RCA's belated entry into the computer business. Between huge development costs and slow sales, RCA's computer program has been running at a loss big enough to offset the profit increases other RCA divisions have shown this year -a fact that tarnished Burns's otherwise excellent record (TIME, Sept...