Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a professional curriculum allows them too little time to convey an adequate understanding of their disciplines. As a result, they will surely press for more space in the curriculum. But it would be wise to resist these pressures. The apparent precision of the formal techniques is more than offset by their limited usefulness in resolving the unruly problems that actually confront public officials. As a result, excessive emphasis on technique will simply leave the student unprepared to deal with real problems or, worse yet, encourage him to distort reality in order to achieve apparent solutions by formal analysis...
...Canadian, West German, French and Italian aluminum companies that mine the West African country's immense deposits. The tax follows the precedent set by Jamaica last spring, when it increased taxes and royalties on its bauxite by 800%. Guinea plans to use the $40 million to help offset the higher oil-import costs that are squeezing the budgets of, all the less developed countries...
...vice-president hardly performs the tasks described in the Wilson report. Instead of a public relations figure spouting the Harvard line to stepped-on community groups, the External Affairs vice president was to have actual authority over the planning and real estate offices. The officer in charge would then offset the real estate office (which is by nature interested primarily in meeting low-cost University land need) by "representing to the University the demands and interests of community groups and individuals and pressing the University to take account of those interests even if so doing would raise land costs, increase...
Cassavetes's admirers compare his home-movie method to Harold Pinter's drama. Although his well-known closeness to the actors, and his dependence on them, is offset by the tighter script of Woman, many scenes are still too protracted and improvisory. The film is nicely framed by two dinner scenes in which Mabel gamely attempts to role-play her Image of sanity. But there are scenes within the film which threaten to wander out of the theater...
Founded in 1974 shortly after Edelin's indictment, the Boston-based fund is soliciting donations from individuals and organizations throughout Massachusetts in support of Edelin. All monies forwarded to the defense fund will be used to offset expenditures in connection with the trial and upcoming appeals procedures...