Word: off-setting
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...pace slowly accelerates in rooms where paintings are brightly lit, and hung side by side. The monumental ornate Baroque paintings and tapestries have no need for any additional atmosphere. A contemporary work of art would look equally ridiculous if it were off-set by a dramatic spotlight in a darkened room, placed in a display that has no connection to the environment of today...
...help restore the popular support that the announcement would cost the Chancellor, the U.S. could ease the terms of the off-set agreements, which require Germany to buy a total of $675 million in military equipment this year to balance U.S. dollar expenses in keeping troops in West Germany. The Germans want to count missile purchases in fulfilling their obligation, and have pointed to their worsening balance of payments in pleading for this change in the agreements. So far they have bought only one half of the necessary equipment, but the U.S. has refused to allow them any modifications...
...squad, coach Bill McCurdy will be plagued with weaknesses in the middle and distance running events, where Yale's Bobby Mack holds a definite edge. McCurdy admits that the Crimson's lack of running depth "presents a real problem," but hopes to score heavily in the field events to off-set the Bulldog advantage...
Individual Crimson brilliance was almost enough to off-set the powerful Tigers--seven deep in top runners. Hamlin clipped 30 seconds off the old course record, and Crain fought right up to the last 10 yards of the five mile course to beat Princeton's Somers for third. Junior Eddie Meehan was hit by a stomach cramp halfway through the contest, but still managed to finish sixth with a 24:57 time...
...off-set corridor, about two-thirds to the south side of the building, will divide the laboratories from the professors' studies, instrument rooms, and small labs...