Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruit readers, Le Temps offers a shrewd combination of its opposition's specialties: a double page of foreign news (rivaling France-Soir), lots of features from birth control to Stalin's crimes (to compete with Paris-Presse), three pages of financial news (to offset Le Monde). Right from the start, the new paper's circulation topped that of Le Figaro (circ. 475,000), the morning bible of France's upper middle class. Whatever its own future, Le Temps' spectacular start put the whole Paris press on its mettle...
...Freshman Lacrosse team is faced with the age-old problem: that is, building a winning team out of players, the majority of whom have never seen a lacrosse stick before. To date, Pickett's warriors have a .500 record; but a 7-6 squeaker over MIT cannot offset a 20-1 holocaust at the hands of a powerful Deerfield Academy team...
Billion-Dollar Angel. This left only one other possibility: find a big, money-making angel outside the auto industry who wants to get into carmaking. The rescuer could take over S-P in a stock swap, use its losses to offset its own profits while pumping in enough money to keep S-P going. By 1960, auto economists figure on a 10 million car market-big enough to support even a small producer...
...result, not the cause of the disease." Researcher Blumenthal's next step is finding out what chemical substances the body builds to keep artery walls elastic; already he has seen a few irregular cases of high blood pressure where the body created new elastic material to offset abnormal wear and tear, notably in coronary arteries. After Blumenthal and his aides isolate the elastic substance, they will concentrate on developing a man-made elastic to compensate for the ravages of stress on man's body lifelines...
...Well, I concede that things are pretty well stacked against me, apparently," said Estes modestly, "but I have been receiving an awful lot of requests from rankand-file people to enter. I will have to evaluate whether I have enough rank-and-file strength to offset the big bloc of political strength which has gotten behind Mr. Stevenson...