Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thoroughgoing weatherization of a house can chop its energy consumption by anything from 10% to 40%, making the investment pay off in only a few years' time. Even so, the conservation gains are not likely to be enough to offset the latest price increases. For poverty-line people and the elderly, the situation can be desperate. In Morrisville, Vt., a welfare mother of four made headlines by ripping up the front stoop of her mobile home to use as firewood because oil costs had risen beyond her reach...
...with a relatively simple option offense more than anything else. The problem, as Restic has said since early September, is that the Crimson lineman do not have the size to "blow out" the opposition. With the Flex, where everyone is shifting, the Crimson can take advantage of motion to offset much of the size disadvantage. But from the power-I or other such conventional formations, Harvard will be moving straight ahead and may find it tough to open the holes...
...address, Carter outlined a plan including increased military preparedness and economic aid in the Caribbean to offset Soviet activity in Cuba...
...next drive, Harvard posted its only points of the day, but not before the Crimson offset a helpful UMass face-masking penalty with a clipping violation of its own. Nonetheless, the Crimson rumbled to the Minutemen's 18-yd. line sparked by a 52-yd. Buchanan-to-Horner fly pattern. Then Connors took on option play and lofted a pass into the endzone, where Horner ripped the ball from a UMass defender's fingers for the score...
Henry Kissinger and some Senators have urged linking ratification of the treaty with a significant boost in the U.S. military budget to offset increased Soviet arms spending of the past five years. That is a creditable argument, since SALT must enhance U.S. defenses as well as help control arms. But there are no grounds for linking SALT to the Soviet brigade in Cuba. The Soviets say the unit has been there for 17 years, and U.S. intelligence sources concede it has been there for at least ten, so the brigade is not even symbolically part of the global Soviet buildup...