Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco Franco last week put a Bill of Rights for Spaniards on display. In democratic eyes, it seemed hardly worth the trouble. The bill ostensibly guaranteed equality under the law, sanctity of the home, life, liberty and property. But each liberty was tied to a legalistic string, each right offset by a duty. The six most important articles could be canceled by the Government at will...
...wrote off $44,000,000 in deferred amortization (depreciation, purchase of new facilities, etc.), came up with a $27 million deficit and thus cut its taxes so much that it had actually overpaid them in the first part of this year. This tax credit was more than enough to offset the deficit in income, thus gave Bethlehem a reported net profit of $2.05 a share, or 38? more than in the same quarter last year...
Eliot's big, competent football team ran into considerably more trouble than it had expected yesterday, but it still had enough power to beat a scrappy Adams eleven, 18 to 8: Hy Brodgen and Herb Eckenrath scored in the first half to offset and Adams safety, and John Boyce went over for the Navy in the third period...
...have shipped a complete TIME printing plant 7,165 miles across the Pacific (cameras, folders, stitchers, offset presses and hundreds of other big & little items). And at last, its wheels are turning...
...last week Asahi got the toughest rapdown yet meted out to any Jap paper by General MacArthur: a two-day suspension. Reason: Asahi had darkly suggested that "some people think [the] announcement of Japanese atrocities may be timed to offset the news about outrages committed by some American soldiers in Japan " (Japs have accused G.I.s of rape.) Next day MacArthur suspended for one day the English-language Nippon-Times...