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...planned as a cooperative venture among four faculties: the Social Relations departments of the faculties of Education, Medicine, Divinity, and Arts and Sciences. The interfaculty arrangement had two purposes. First, it was hoped it would offset the arts and sciences emphasis on research, and second, it was supposed to make clinical psychology more responsive to the needs of so many people for psychological help...
...that his 1972 re-election committee ran one of the most suspect campaigns in American political history. But to conjure up political tricks from Nixon's past is not enough to implicate the President himself. Even now, The Washington Post asserts the Nixon Administration is devising a strategy to offset the full disclosure planned by legal counsel John W. Dean...
While 1445 happy high school seniors consider attending Harvard, Evans, other Admissions Committee members and students are approaching the 94 blacks who were admitted, hoping to offset the decline from 114 by increasing the acceptance rate among blacks. How successful they are will be known sometime after...
Horton's drive, his first homer of the season, followed an intentional walk to Gates Brown after Al Kaline and Norm Cash had rapped consecutive doubles in the fourth inning. The home run climaxed Detroit's second four-run outburst against Marty Pattin, and enabled the Tigers to offset four Boston homers, two by Reggie Smith...
...biennial negotiations on new terms for the U.S.-West German offset agreements are to start within a matter of weeks, since the current agreement expires at the end of June. According to one reliable diplomatic source, Schmidt has been in " an unusually arrogant mood." In what may or or may not be a negotiating tactic, he told other officials that congressional sentiment in favor of the Mansfield amendment to reduce troops does not matter, that Nixon has pledged to keep all troops in Europe, and will do so even if the Germans refuse all payments...