Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bradlee T. Howe '63, general manager of HSA, remained confident of HSA's future. Howe said yesterday that the agency plans to diversify to offset the leveling off of business...
...White House official says the President did pay some income tax for 1970, but how much has not yet been disclosed. The Administration last spring proposed to limit the tax deductibility of some interest on money borrowed to finance investments, including real estate, and to limit the right to offset salaries by claiming accelerated depreciation on investment property. But its proposals have got sidetracked...
Until he suffered a severely bruised Achilles tendon in the Oxford-Cambridge meet last spring, Bill Durette was expected to be another strong hope for the harriers. His loss has been somewhat offset, though, by the fine showing of Dirk Skinner, a "complete surprise" in McCurdy's words, who ran exceptionally well in camp...
Though disappointed by the reduced allocations, the hurricane hunters do not find the halt entirely unwelcome. In fact, meteorologists are beginning to believe that tropical storms may more than offset the damage they cause by the good they do. Scientists already know that in such places as Japan, India, Southeast Asia−even in the southeastern portion of the U.S.−tropical storms provide up to 25% of available rainfall. If this vital precipitation were ever cut off by man's interference with such storms, the results might be ruinous for farmers, industry and drinking-water supplies. Now many...
...good management alone cannot offset the entire loss. Summer school deficits caused by Phase III freezes, along with future price rises, could swell that figure to over $300,000--perhaps as high as a half-million dollars. Personnel will not be cut back, Hall promised, so something must give elsewhere...