Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Columbia University agreed to grant The Daily Spectator a $25,000 loan to help offset a $40,000 debt which threatened to close the 96-year-old paper...
...million loan to Uganda and announced the phasing out of a technical-assistance program, Amin promised "very drastic" measures-perhaps a break in relations and the expulsion of Britons as "imperialists." He also boasted that the French government had promised to increase its aid to Uganda to offset much of what the British were taking away. In Paris, a spokesman for French President Georges Pompidou denied that any such promise had been made, adding that "France is approaching the question of aid to Uganda with the greatest caution...
...OTHER NEUTRALS-including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria-are publicly enthusiastic about détente, but in private they are extremely cautious. They realize that their neutrality would be endangered in a Europe that did not have U.S. power to offset Soviet military strength. "Do you know what MBFR stands for?" a Scandinavian diplomat asked TIME Correspondent David Tinnin in Helsinki last week. Before Tinnin could answer, the diplomat replied, "It means more benefits for the Russians...
President Bok said "the gift will give great encouragement to the efforts we are making to find new sources of support for graduate education in order to offset declining levels of assistance from the Federal government and other outside agencies...
Changes in the admissions office would most likely be needed to offset any officer's psychological bias over an applicant's sex in determining his or her admittance. Should Harvard and Radcliffe combine their admissions offices? Should the admissions officer know an applicant's sex? It would be hard for him not to, due to an application's indicators in the form of activities. If so, an officer's preference for one sex could lead to imbalances in not only the male-female ratio but in the quality of the student body itself. In a sex-blind admissions system, those...