Word: offset
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...election day, Yarborough was unable to rally enough of his traditional support to overcome the electorate's disinterest and to offset the votes of Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for Bentsen. Yarborough's East Texas stronghold deserted him, mainly over the Carswell issue. While Yarborough's friends stayed home, his enemies did not. Thus, the Democrats were deprived of their best chance to defeat the G.O.P.'s Bush next fall...
...underground press itself has been a fleeting and sometimes unstable form of communication, as community, high school, black, G.I., hippie, and radical papers are born and die with amazing frequency. New printing methods- notably the "coldtype" use of the offset press- have encouraged the proliferation of what seems to Mrs. Romm to be an unattractively vibrant genre of protest journalism...
There was little question as to the outcome of the meet after Harvard swept the long jump, triple jump, pole vault, and javelin and took the first two places in the high jump. By shutting the Indians out, the Crimson more than offset Dartmouth's expected domination of the throwing events...
...stated that the Star-Bulletin printed a line that said, "Wake Up Hawaii -Vote Republican" on a political ad of Democrat Fasi. The implication was that the Star-Bulletin had done this deliberately, which, if true, would be reprehensible. The truth is that this line on voting Republican was offset on a press blanket from a previously run ad and, by sheer coincidence, the ghostly image appeared in a black area of Fasi...
...other problems, the action was enough to bring the once strong lira down to 650 to the dollar last week, its lowest level since 1952. The irony is that Italy's labor costs are lower than those of any other industrialized country, and rapidly rising productivity will offset much of the wage increases won in the autumn strikes. Yet to achieve the rate of investment necessary for the economy to continue to grow, the country needs a government capable of inspiring confidence. Until such a government comes to power, even Italian officials admit that the new rules will...