Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their first three races, the Crimson lightweights relied upon big men, whose power was counted upon to offset any deficiencies in their rowing techniques. As a consequence, they have had to come from behind in every race. The first time out, against Tech, their late spurt succeeded; but they have had two successive defeats as a result of too high an early stroke and too late a spurt...
...Oskar Kokoshka. He applied their color-by-the-gob technique to molten-seeming canvases of rabbis, chandeliers, brides, Christmas trees, buried treasure and, finally, corpses. At 40, Bloom exercises a control of his medium as elaborate, and theatrical, as Caravaggio's. His steady gain in dexterity is offset by a restriction of range: for a full decade now, Bloom has concentrated on dead flesh, often disemboweled and usually human...
ELECTRONICS boom in New England is doing much to offset the slump in textile business. Hundreds of electronics firms (44 in Lawrence, Mass, alone) have moved into the area in the last few years, taken over idle mills and provided 85,000 new jobs, almost 60% more than were lost through textile layoffs...
...Losses of around $10 million which could be used to offset profits in other Hughes companies if he could work out a way to merge one of them with...
Some of the present residents will disagree. "It's so far to walk, for meals," they say. "And it's ugly from the outside." But to most of its residents, the advantages of living in Claverly offset any handicaps. Indeed, to many, who have chosen to remain there next year, "Clav" must offer something extra...