Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students goes only to offset tuition," Champion said. "It doesn't provide for any improvement in the education itself." Nonearmarked funding as proposed in the new bill would allow the University to channel the funds into programs that would, Champion said, "increase the quality of opportunity...
...wing defense where it lost two fullbacks and one halfback. The Crimson may be susceptible to a sudden opposition breakaway on a clearing pass to the wing, but the strength of Wilmot and Messing in the penalty area and the scoring potential of the offense will offset any one goal mistake...
...goals is too much for the Brown forward line to match. Without speed and without finesse, the Bruins rely on Dick Lay to somehow break through the opposition. Once, maybe twice, a game can be expected against some teams, but Harvard and Penn should have enough offense to offset the Bruins slow-down tactics...
...income this year will probably not rise above the 1970 level and could come in slightly below it. Any dip in prices for livestock, which accounts for about 60% of farm earnings, has a widespread effect. Thus the payments farmers receive for the rich autumn bounty will be partially offset by relatively meager prices for hogs, poultry and eggs in the first half of the year. To nudge farmers into growing more corn as a hedge against blight, the Department of Agriculture discontinued some support payments for unused acreage. All together, the move will snip Government payments to farmers this...
...clubs dropped slightly last year from $3,400,000 to $3,200,000. The company's hotel operations dipped into the red and showed a loss of $1,700,000 in 1970; a $2,200,000 deficit at the Playboy Plaza in Miami more than offset profits from the company's other resort hotels. Hefner's newest venture, a plush resort hotel in northern New Jersey 50 miles from downtown New York, is scheduled to be completed in December. Its cost, originally estimated at $21 million, is now figured in the Playboy prospectus at $29.5 million...