Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...change in the Government's complicated price-support program also contributed to the overflowing corn crop. To offset the possible effects of blight this year, the program was realigned to induce farmers to use up to 20% more of their corn-growing land instead of leaving it fallow. The result: corn plantings increased by almost 7,000,000 acres, to 64 million acres...
...considerable savings on a yearly basis. In this way we can hopefully avert a situation as drastic as that at Columbia. By instituting cost consciousness throughout the administrative organization of the University--at the Computing Center, the Press, in central services and so forth--we can partially offset increases in operating expenses and higher wages. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is another matter. John Dunlop is, of course, much better aquainted than I am with the particular aspects of the Faculty's budget, but the deficit has been steadily growing, and it may be greatly augmented by the expected...
...considerable savings on a yearly basis. In this way we can hopefully avert a situation as drastic as that at Columbia. By instituting cost consciousness throughout the administrative organization of the University--at the Computing Center, the Press, in central services and so forth--we can partially offset increases in operating expenses and higher wages. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is another matter. John Dunlop is, of course, much better aquainted than I am with the particular aspects of the Faculty's budget, but the deficit has been steadily growing, and it may be greatly augmented by the expected...
...vice chairman, ordered the gathering after the COLC staff saw reports of dividend increases in the press. Arnold Weber, executive director of the council, seated the businessmen around a table at the COLC's Washington headquarters and asked them to lower their next dividend in order to offset the latest increases. All except Wettstein agreed to recommend the action at their next board meetings...
...continuing controversy about the box may have partially offset the good effects Skinner hoped for when he designed it. Says Deborah, who is now an art student in London: "It was spread around that because of the box I had become psychotic, had to be institutionalized, and had even attempted suicide. My father was very concerned about these rumors, as was I. He thinks they may have affected me. After college, I had a typical half-year of depression, the sort of identity crisis that everybody I've ever known has gone through. At this point my father brought...