Word: offseting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During the season, however, they lift two tothree times per week to keep up the strength theybuilt up over the summer and offset the fatiguethey experience in competition...
...more money for phone banks and direct-mail appeals; Schumer is counting on what's left of New York labor to pull voters, especially in the five boroughs, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1. He needs a huge turnout there--and in upstate cities like Buffalo--to offset D'Amato's relative strength in the suburbs and the North Country...
...Harvard roster was 1998 Ivy League Player of the Year and team captain Ivy Wang. She was forced to sit with a possibly torn rotator cuff and will miss next weekend and maybe the entire fall season. The Crimson has an array of freshmen with the potential to offset the loss...
...should everybody rush out to buy one? Well...maybe not. HDTV's obvious advantages over conventional sets are offset by significant disadvantages. For openers, there's the price tag. Sony's smallish set, with a 34-in.-diagonal screen, lists for a largish $8,999. RCA's 55-in. projection-screen set goes for $6,999. Panasonic's 56-in. projection model might appear to be a bargain at $5,999, but it can pick up only nondigital broadcasts--unless you buy the optional $1,700 digital decoder. Prices will eventually drop, of course, but Bill Mannion, general manager...
...broad, ecstatic blend of the pristine disco of ABBA, the elegant jazz pop of Steely Dan, the rhythmic bass throb of funk and the bleary-eyed cocktail electronica of trip-hop. The product is anything but tired; on Sylvie, for example, the rueful, cosmopolitan irony of the lyric is offset completely by a glowing arrangement. The overlay of subtle syncopations and retro instrumentation makes the song surreal and engaging, like a chance meeting with Burt Bacharach after hours at a chic London nightclub. Some might call this kitsch, but emotional immediacy and sheer musical complexity make the song...