Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Italian auto exports declined 8% last year, Italian automakers hardly noticed the difference. In their own country, the prospering Italians are switching in such numbers from scooters to autos that the domestic demand more than offset the export slump. Fiat, Italy's biggest automaker, plans to expand its Turin plant to turn out 3,000 cars a day instead of the present...
JAPAN'S TEXTILE EXPORTS to the U.S. fell 11.2% last year, largely because of the Japanese voluntary quota system (to offset objections from pressed U.S. textile producers) and competition from other nations for U.S. market...
...1960s," says Professor Mosely. "we shall, under present prospects, be dealing with a Soviet system that is growing rapidly in economic, scientific and military strength and which will have fewer rather than more difficulties in preserving political stability and an adequate measure of ideological uniformity. These growing strengths, not offset by equivalent new weaknesses, will enable its leaders to devote greater rather than smaller resources and political determination to achieving the world-wide purposes that have been proclaimed by Lenin and Stalin and now by Khrushchev...
...annual Protestant rally, called Kirchentag, could be held in East Berlin next July, and had stopped Bishop Lilje and four other West German bishops on their way to a Sunday service at the Marienkirche. But the delegates decided that the immediate pleasure of electing Bishop Lilje might be offset by Communist reprisals during his six-year term. At the same time they rebuffed the Communists by refusing even a seat on the Evangelical Church's governing council to Bishop Moritz Mitzenheim of Thuringia, the nearest thing to a fellow traveler in E.K.D. 's top echelon...
...freshmen also mastered their Princeton counterparts, 51 to 44. Complete victories in the 220 breaststroke, 400 relay, and in the 50, 220, and 440 freestyle events offset the magnificent performances of Princeton's Dave Kennedy and Jed Graef. Kennedy established a new Princeton freshman, university, and pool record of 2:11.5 in the individual medley; Graef broke Kaufmann's Princeton pool record in the 200 backstroke, establishing a national freshman, Princeton freshman and university record...