Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shakespeare's histories. And among performances of Shakespeare, the Mather Drama Society's production does not stand out either. But strong performances by Jon Isham as Phillip the Bastard and Alexander Coxe Pearson as King John hold the play together. The major strengths in director Katherine Ashton's cast offset the weaknesses in Shakespeare's work to make this King John worth seeing...
...Carter's powers of incumbency ?his control of the party machinery in many states, of federal patronage and funds?are offset at least in part by strengths that Kennedy inherited from his brothers. Says Theodore White: "The shadow legions of the Kennedys stretch from Maine to San Francisco. Just as Ezekiel's prophecy had the power to wake the dead, the Kennedy name will bring out the people who remember the old days with the sentiment of youth...
...less than one-third, and all of that comes from trucks. In fact, Ford suffers from a milder case of the problem that afflicts Chrysler: Americans have not been buying big, heavy cars. But unlike Chrysler, Ford is earning money because it has hugely profitable overseas operations that easily offset the domestic losses...
Already weakened by the loss of Paula Newnham, due to an ankle injury. Harvard was unable to offset the unexpected absence of number-two runner Johanna Forman who was called home suddenly a day earlier...
...study also finds that the dam's projected output of 23 megawatts of electricity will be offset by operational costs and rack up an annual $750,000 deficit. And the TVA, which lobbied vehemently for the dam throughout the 1960s and '70s, now admits that the project will not even provide the power for which it was built. But as bulldozers returned to the dam site for a last month of construction before the reservoir is filled, practicality seemed to have lost a last round to politics...