Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Service trades account for an increasing share of sales and jobs?54% of all employment in the U.S.?and it is tough for service businesses to offset wage increases by improving productivity. So they keep on raising prices...
...signature when Brezhnev visits Washington later this year. A new treaty will supersede the 1972 SALT I accord, which temporarily froze the total number of strategic missiles but gave the Soviets an advantage in the absolute number of missiles. That agreement was made, despite strong Pentagon opposition, to offset the commanding MIRV lead the U.S. then enjoyed. SALT II will, among other things, limit the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to one anti-ballistic missile site each, instead of the two ABMs permitted by SALT...
Tactically, the most important American units in South Korea may be the U.S. Air Force units; their supersonic F-4 Phantom fighter-bombers are needed to offset the 3-to-1 superiority in air power that the North boasts over the South. Other key U.S. units provide antiaircraft and surface-to-surface missile support, and field engineering, trucking and logistics battalions...
Still, the worst of the wave of layoffs that began in August is probably over. Indeed, the actual number of workers employed in April rose by 320,000 over the month before; but that was not enough to offset the rise in the national unemployment rate, caused by the flow of new job seekers entering the market...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will recruit minority students last year in a coordinated effort with six other graduate schools in an attempt to offset the recent decline in minority applications Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, said yesterday...