Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson varsity hockey team's new-found depth more than offset Dartmouth's annual inspiration up at Hanover last Saturday. Playing with a reshuffled lineup, the varsity outfought and outlasted the Indians, 6 to 4, before 2,000-odd strictly partisan spectators...
...varsity kept the game moving at a fast pace all night, but was just not able to get off enough shots to offset its penalty disadvantages...
...competition. The other ... is regulation by the state." But a third result of such concentration, often overlooked by economists, may be of even greater importance: the rise of large "countervailing powers," such as the labor federations and farm bureaus, or the organization of large chain and department stores to offset the market power of great manufacturers. "Those who are subject to the aggressions of economic power have both a negative and a positive incentive to organize resistance." This being true, said Galbraith, the tactics of great corporations should be viewed in the same manner as the efforts of labor...
...main Republican argument for postponing the rise is political. (The boost, once scheduled to go into effect in 1943, was postponed after a fight led by the late Senator Arthur Vandenberg.) Some Republican Congressmen argue that the 10% cut in income taxes on Jan. 1 will be more than offset for workers in low tax brackets by the larger social-security payment. Actually, this is a weak argument. At the new rate, unmarried workers will get less take-home pay only if their taxable incomes are under $800 a year: married couples without dependents only if their income is less...
...people, Warren used to travel up and down the State of California, meeting people, handling dozens of administrative problems through a large staff. Suddenly, he was behind a desk in an office full of law books. Warren found that he liked the new opportunity for reflection and analysis. To offset the confining nature of his work, the Chief Justice often walks for two or three miles before going to bed about midnight...