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...night last fall, Stock Clerk Clifford G. Miller Jr. captured a neighborhood prowler, suffered a fractured hand in the scuffle, and lost $612.15 in pay and medical expenses. The cost of Miller's unusual willingness to become actively involved in the process of law enforcement was partly offset by medical and disability insurance, but he was still left $269.60 in the hole...
...result, Carter filed suit, charging that his "arbitrary and capricious" discharge had violated his right to privacy as well as his future employment prospects. Later, when Carter applied for a job in a Washington bank, two of his three roommates loyally volunteered character-reference letters to help offset the stigma of being an ex-FBI man at 25. The third refused to help Carter; instead, he told his superiors about his friends' action, which also violates the FBI code. The upshot was that all three-including the informer-were pressed to resign because none had reported Carter...
Four goals by freshman, Jan Rus, high-school all-America last year, weren't enough to offset a fourth quarter surge by the Queensmen. Harvard had carried a 4-4 tie into the final period...
Under one mixed-use plan, Pei might design office buildings to be built upon the memorial site, the MBTA yards across Boylston Street from Eliot House. Income from renting the upper stories to businesses would offset the cost of renting the ground floors cheaply to student organizations and local stores...
Despite Mayhew's criticism, the new defense policy caused fewer political ripples than the Prime Minister had feared. Though many Empire-minded Britons were shocked by the cutbacks, their reaction was more than offset by the millions of British who feel that a vigorous hold-down on defense spending is long overdue. Thus Wilson returned to London to find his political house quite in order. The best speculation was that he would call a general election for March...