Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large. Results: 1) a rousing 18-1 endorsement-with 85% of the electorate voting-for statehood, which clears the way for Hawaii's admission to the Union by presidential proclamation after the July 28 general elections, and 2) a heavy numerical vote margin for the Democrats, partially offset by the fact that most Republicans were running unopposed...
...scowling Gonzales and the deadpan Hoad renewed their private duel at the $15,000 Tournament of Champions at Forest Hills, N.Y. "I think I'm as good as he is," declared Hoad, "and I know he thinks the same." For Gonzales, who has been gobbling vitamin pills to offset the weariness that plagued him earlier this year, the tournament was a chance to prove that he was still the greatest player in the world. Said Pancho: "I feel fit, very fit. Until Hoad beats me, I'm not worried...
...growth of major cities on the West Coast encouraged packers and farmers to set up markets at Denver, Kansas City, Omaha and other points closer home. At the same time, the spread of new highways and the upsurge of the trucking industry offset Chicago's advantage as a rail center. Livestock production spread east and south. In World War II, rationing and price control, strictly enforced in Chicago, encouraged behind-the-barn slaughter throughout the farm belt. Once broken of the habit of shipping to Chicago, many farmers never went back. By 1954 there were 2,367 separate packing...
Economics 1, with the greatest enrollment of any College course is a case in point. Using a popular text-book by M.I.T.'s Paul A. Samuelson, the course lays great stress on Federal fiscal policy (e.g. "countercyclical spending" by the national government to help offset periodic business slumps). Lecturers include Seymour Harris, Chairman of the Department and John Kenneth Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society...
This danger is partially offset at the GSD through the collaborative projects undertaken by the advanced students of the three departments. Times Square, Park Square in Boston, and the portion of Cambridge between Harvard and MIT have been project subjects in the past. Besides leading to a mutual appreciation of each other's role these joint efforts provide the students an opportunity to encounter the complexity entailed in a plan complete with its economic, political, technological, social and aesthetic aspects...