Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This August a series of conferences will begin at Taizé and later move on to other countries. The meetings, to be called the Council of Youth, will explore ways that the young can help offset the injustices of the world so that, as a council slogan puts it, man will "no longer be victim to man." Brother Roger does not want the council to become a bureaucratized movement. There will be, he says, "no successions of votes, amendments, commissions, representations. It will be like an ever-widening river ... it will be what we shall have become...
...lieu of tax payments are the monies that Harvard pays to the city "voluntarily" to offset some of the cost to the city and to pay for some of the vital services provided to Harvard by the city. The annual figure has increased dramatically from $283,095 in 1971 to about $500,000 for 1973. But this large increase has not solved the problems the city faces nor relieved the pressure the city council and city manager place on Harvard...
...frightening at the same time. When last summer Central II showed Sturges's Hail the Conquering Hero (about a fake wartime hero who runs for mayor of a small town), tiny audiences doubled over in laughter for seven nights. But the commercial loss to the theater wasn't even offset by the full-house receipts from King of Hearts next door. "There are very few theaters now that can show a film like that," says Robert St. George '64, manager of Harvard Square, Central, and Brattle. "A lot of art houses have closed in the last few years...
Without a powerhouse running squad to offset Crimson superiority in the field events, the Elis must be rated solid underdogs in today's contest. Unless Yale receives some stronger performances from already weak relay teams and a depleted middle-distance corps, Harvard should have a fairly easy time with the Elis...
Though the turn-out exceeded usual varsity basketball attendance, it failed to net enough money to offset the cost of officials, gym rental and trophies. Carrington said Saturday that the invitational incurred a $150 debt, but that he is not yet sure how the deficit will be made...