Word: offsets
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...undoubtedly need a merchant marine and a naval reserve. Subsidies, however, do not strike at the heart of the matter; they do not account for and remedy the differences in cost of constructing, operating and repairing ships under the American flag and under foreign flags. Even did subsidies offset these disadvantages, it would be at an unjustifiably enormous expense. Moreover, subsidies are a bad business and economic proportion, for they are only temporary and do not adapt themselves to changes in economic conditions, for there is no relation between subsidies and markets...
...Green, the second Yale speaker, submitted the policy which the first speaker for the affirmative had only touched upon briefly--the system of subsidies--which he said would offset the greater cost of building and operating ships here than abroad. Moreover, by making the subsidy for each ship pro- portional to the amount of cargo which it carries, American vessels will be induced to carry as much as they can and as often as they can, and to outdo foreign rivals. A system such as this is analogous to the one which the United States employed in building...
...area which are thickly settled, and that there are beginning to be indications that the point has been very nearly reached where it may be confidently said that Cambridge is burdened by the exemption of the property of Harvard University and Radcliffe College to a degree which is not offset by any benefits they confer to the municipal corporation...
...from last year's figures. The Bussey Institution has been discontinued as an undergraduate agricultural department, and its members are now registered in the Graduate School of Applied Science. The Afternoon and Saturday Courses for Teachers have also been discontinued, but this decrease has been more than offset by the increase in other departments. The decrease in the enrollment of the Lawrence Scientific School was to be expected, as no students have been allowed to register in it for the past two years, and all Special Scientific students are registered in the College. The College, the Graduate School of Arts...