Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...independent GREENSBORO, N.C. DAILY NEWS: "Peace and Prosperity" offset the "pocketbook nerves." The real power will remain where it has been during the last two years, in the hands of the normally conservative Republican-Democratic coalition...
...small classes and the opportunity for close student-faculty contacts prejudice many excellent professors in favor of Brown. There is no doubt in the Brown man's mind that these special advantages more than offset the ability of more generously endowed institutions to attract teachers...
With its coal mines (17 million tons annually) and its steel furnaces (3,000,000 tons), the Saar is the counterweight France wants to offset the industrial might of West Germany. With the Saar, France's steel production is near West Germany's (13 million tons v. 16 million); without the Saar and with the Saar added to West Germany, France would have little more than half of West Germany's output (11 million tons v. 18 million...
They were "awakened" by the Spaniards, who brought with them both Christianity and visions of wealth. What the incredibly brave and selfless friars brought in the way of spiritual enlightenment was sometimes more than offset by the greed and rapacity of the Spanish governors. For 200 years the Spanish slaughtered and the Indians massacred, but by 1700 the Pueblo Indians were finished as warriors. The Rio Grande enjoyed few stretches of real peace. What with the Indians, the U.S.-Mexican war and the raids of Pancho Villa, Horgan's pages are seldom free from violence...
...annual budgets of both Princeton and Yale will show a deficit of over one million dollars for the 1954-55 academic year unless the loss can be offset by substantial alumni contributions...