Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alone with Russia, and Europe knew it. Britain had already made clear its willingness to accept enough IRBMs to stock four bases (three to be manned by the British and one by U.S. troops). In time, similar agreements could probably be worked out with enough other NATO members to offset the Soviet ICBM threat...
...significantly, Folsom said nothing whatever about the Administration's last school construction program, which was killed in the House). Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson talked about saving $500 million by eliminating the acreage reserve section of the soil-bank program (a good part of that saving might be offset by increased subsidies). Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, while avoiding talk of tax increases, plugged for renewal of the 52% corporation tax rate...
After weighing such facts, Prudential Insurance Co. issued its usually accurate annual new-year prediction: 1958 will see a $3 billion dip in capital expenditures, but this will be offset by a rise of $5 billion in state spending and $1 billion in home building. Said President Carrol Shanks: business will hold at the present stable levels for the next six months, and then "the second half of the year is likely to be strong...
With the first eight men averaging only 6ft. 2 in. and the tallest starter just 6 ft. 4 in. the Yardlings will be precariously small for a college freshman team. To offset this lack of rebounding height the freshmen will have to run continuously and shoot well, and Munro feels he has the material to do just this...
Their most notable triumph was over Yale, early in the season; but this victory has been more than offset by losses to Columbia and Dartmouth, and most recently, to Princeton and Cornell...