Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...textile industry last week laid before the Tariff Commission a country-by-country quota-protection program to offset the flood of foreign cotton imports. Bruised by competition from abroad, domestic cotton manufacturers recommended that each foreign country be limited to the volume of its 1955 cotton exports to the U.S. Otherwise, U.S. textile producers will be placed in the position where they will have to establish overseas plants to take advantage of less expensive foreign manufacturing facilities...
Even the finest small man in the game is beginning to worry. Boston's great Bob Cousy (6 ft. 1 in., 176 lbs.) sees little point in raising the basket to offset sheer height ("Why penalize someone just because he's 7 ft. tall?"), is more interested in the proposal to zone the floor: one point for successful shots within 6 ft. of the basket; two points for shots from 6 to 25 ft.; three points for shots from farther...
...dish, and Beirut housewives now buy 40,000 a week. Another result: 32 chicken rotisserie stores have opened in Beirut since 1958, and 64 more await licenses. Greenleaf also sells chicks to local farmers who want to learn how to raise quality egg-layers or well-fattened roosters. To offset future losses from such potential competitors, Greenleaf is selling them feed...
...Gates said the intercontinental-range missile gap, about which Democrats in Congress have been protesting, is being offset in other ways...
...expanding our missile program, putting missiles on our bomber force and bringing into operation Polaris submarines which we believe will offset any so-called missile gap, at least from the point of view of the validity of our deterrent," he said...