Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Geoff Tootell, number one Varsity shotputter, discarded family allegiance momentarily last Saturday in the Stadium when he won his event and picked up five important points against the team his father coaches. Plus 25 in the field events offset a minus 17 in the running events to give the Crimson a 74 to 66 win. The defeat was Rhode Island's first in 12 years of dual competition...
...committee held out little hope that annual economies might reduce the costs of operating the Houses. Electricity and heating costs have gone up in the past months with the increased price of coal, according to Fischelis, and there is doubt that any meter system would save enough to offset the cost of administering...
Otis & Co. had charges of their own to make. They complained that K-F had used over $2.5 million of the company's funds to buy its own stock at $13.50 in order to "stabilize" the price just before the offering. This had caused "mounting criticism." To offset it, Otis had recommended that Kaiser and Frazer pay for this stock out of their own money, but they had refused...
...Editors still had a lot to learn about type and makeup for an 8½ in. by 11 in. page. But the sheets turned out last week (at the rate of four pages in 15 minutes) were clear and readable, with cuts as finely detailed as in offset printing...
...State of the Union message yesterday, Truman asked Congress to cut income taxes of both rich and poor by $40 per person, with an additional $40 reduction for each dependent. The estimated revenue loss of three billion dollars would be offset by increased levies on corporations...