Word: offsets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
With its coal mines (17 million tons annually) and its steel furnaces (3,000,000 tons), the Saar is the counterweight France wants to offset the industrial might of West Germany. With the Saar, France's steel production is near West Germany's (13 million tons v. 16 million); without the Saar and with the Saar added to West Germany, France would have little more than half of West Germany's output (11 million tons v. 18 million...
They were "awakened" by the Spaniards, who brought with them both Christianity and visions of wealth. What the incredibly brave and selfless friars brought in the way of spiritual enlightenment was sometimes more than offset by the greed and rapacity of the Spanish governors. For 200 years the Spanish slaughtered and the Indians massacred, but by 1700 the Pueblo Indians were finished as warriors. The Rio Grande enjoyed few stretches of real peace. What with the Indians, the U.S.-Mexican war and the raids of Pancho Villa, Horgan's pages are seldom free from violence...
...annual budgets of both Princeton and Yale will show a deficit of over one million dollars for the 1954-55 academic year unless the loss can be offset by substantial alumni contributions...
...spite of Democratic portents, however, Ives should still win--by a whisker. This is because there are not enough registered voters in New York City, Harriman's stronghold, to offset the Republican edge in the more contented upstate areas. The key votes belong to the two million upstate voters who don't have to register. If they all vote, Ives will win. And what may well drive them to the polls are the very portents that the Democrats, their natural enemies, are running ahead...
Democrat Tom Burke does not even try to compete-and he may not need to. Burke has concentrated on Ohio's industrial centers, hopes to come out of them with enough organization votes to offset Bender's advantage in the rural districts and Cincinnati's Taftland. Burke dislikes to campaign. As the four-time mayor of Cleveland, he rarely had to try hard, and he much prefers to spend his evenings in cozy spots with a few old political cronies. His campaign speeches have been studded with such unexciting lines as "Canton has more replevins for merchandise...