Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White's loss, however, following a strong primary victory over state senate leader Maurice Donahue, has left the Democratic Party leaderless in a state that is registered 2-1 Democratic. Despite the Governor's strong showing, his gubernatorial victory did little to offset the heavily Democratic Massachusetts legislature...
...Ohio, Republican Robert Taft Jr. appeared to be edging out Democratic liberal Howard Metzenbaum for the seat occupied by retiring Democratic Senator Stephen Young. Metzenbaum had put together an old-style Democratic coalition to beat astronaut John Glenn in the primary but he seems to have been unable to offset the Taft name and a red smear that surfaced a few weeks ago in the election-this despite liberal Democrat John Gilligan's strong victory in the Governor's race...
Drinan's staff feared that a strong showing by Philbin in the Western half of the district, including the factory towns of Fitchburg and Leominster, would offset Drinan's advantage in suburban Newton, Waltham, and Watertown...
Throughout the album, Cale blends his specific style of disjointed imagery with offset choruses of abstract solidity...
...what General Electric Chairman Fred Borch called "a basic judgmental difference as to whether monetary and fiscal policies alone will slow down inflation. They [the Government panelists] think it will. We do not." The executives called for a variety of Government measures aimed at improving productivity in order to offset the impact of wage increases, including pressure on unions to loosen restrictive hiring practices. On Sunday, 15 Business Council members went to the White House at the President's invitation, presumably to give him the same message directly...