Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of the fringe benefit recommendations the Committee has quite fairly balanced financial needs and justified the proposals by citing the valuable features that offset any objections (as enumerated in yesterday's editorial), With its peculiarly stubborn disadvantages, the scholarship plan is highly objectionable. Although it is largely justified on the basis of need, it is not set up on that principle. The plan gives no consideration to a professor's income in granting a scholarship to his child, although he may receive money from private holdings, such as pay for outside work, the publication of books, etc. Also...
...value of this plan in attracting the best men to the profession is also partially offset by the fact highly qualified young men are most concerned over how much they can make immediately after entering the profession. Because they often have heavy debts upon completion of setting up a home in a new community, junior faculty members are not particularly heartened by the prospect of luxury during later life...
...reasonable course in bringing a weight to help acceleration and then asking officials if it was permitted. It was not allowed, and the weight was removed. I was not as confident as TIME'S reporter that added weight would have helped -that any increase in traction would offset the increased inertia. If it had been allowed, I would have experimented with the best results, with and without the added weight. As it was, I did not hope to smuggle a 200 or 300-lb. block of iron, lying on the trunk floor, through a microscopic inspection. Aside from moral...
Bizmac's operator needs only to press the proper buttons, and Bizmac's 25 electric tapewriters will clack out pages ready for offset photography. Able as it is, Bizmac is only the prototype of even better computers that will be capable of running entire factories. Tomorrow's great brain will start up machinery, feed in raw materials, switch from one product to the next as orders come in, convey parts to assembly lines, put them together, inspect, box, band and load finished products into freight cars and trucks...
...Chicago company the additional shares it needed for a stock trade with Canadian Locomotive Co. (TIME, Feb. 6), which it already controls. Thus President Morse, whose family and management own nearly 350,000 (of 1,228,590) shares of stock in the 98-year-old company, hopes to offset the 200,000 shares that are claimed by Silberstein's Penn-Texas Corp. and friends...