Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...already noticeable. To husband its dollars, each country has clapped on stiff import controls. Chile's Foreign Exchange Control Board, for instance, has decreed that only essential items, such as machinery for new industry, can get import permits. By such close-to-the-vest trade, Chile hopes to offset her $100,000,000 deficit...
Ablest and hardest hitting is Durham M. Miller's article "Propaganda and Democracy." To offset the practice of the reactionary press of allowing the only meager, selected details to ooze through the policy-filters down to the average reader, he calls for a nation-wide network of intellectual-labor newspapers, the smashing of the wood pulp and press machinery monopolies, and the establishment of "watch dogs" over the public interest in an unshackled press. "World Government, But First One World," by Stephen M. Schwebel, strikes out at federalist perfectionists who "take legal symbols for social realities." "The Coming Economic Crisis...
...decisive event, with the 6 to 3 score against them, the Varsity tightened up, but not quits enough and went into the saber bouts with the chips stacked, 11 to 7, in favor of the Lions. The six points scored by the saber team was not enough to offset Columbia's three, and the final score stayed tipped against the Varsity...
Because he admires the Partisan Review so much, Editor Connolly, who publishes London's highbrow Horizon, had 1,000 photo-offset copies of Review printed, and sold them at cost (35. 6d.). Said one Bloomsbury bookseller: "American intellectuals have so much vitality that it just forces itself out from inside them, while ours just seem to be writing off the top of their minds. Why, when people have discovered Partisan Review on the shelf, their eyes have lit up with pleasure, and as you know people's eyes don't light up any more, what with...
...final attempt to offset apathy toward the Student Council and its activities, Edric A. Weld's Constitutional Committee will seek student body approval today and tomorrow in Collegewide balloting for 2500 majority ratification of a new Council constitution...