Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the team planned to go to Bermuda, 35 players told Young that they were definitely interested. At that time Young planned to raise money to offset player-expense, but he gave up the entire scheme when Yale's teams, with whom the Crimson would have played exhibition games, decided to forego the venture. Yale also will send a group to Florida...
...attributed this recession to the fact that government cuts in expenditures and increased savings by the people would offset public expenditures on consumer goods and increased activity by state and local governments on proposed civic improvements...
...teeth of such hopes, Weeks proposed last week that tariffs high enough to offset "differences in domestic and foreign labor costs" be fixed on manufactured goods in order to protect "the standard of living of American labor." Professional tariff lobbyists endorsed Weeks's idea. And Pennsylvania's high-tariff Republican Representative Richard M. Simpson said: "Those of us who believe in more protection rather than less take satisfaction in Secretary Weeks's speech, especially because he is a member of the Cabinet...
...reason is that cheap foreign labor is usually offset by low productivity and lack of capital needed for investment in efficient plants and machines. Removing tariffs would certainly help foreign producers. But the main obstacle to big volume sales of foreign goods in the U.S. is the nature of the American market place itself...
...Brown student council--The Camarion Club--works to offset this split. Drawing its membership largely from the independents, the C.C. has a strong influence on the Brown campus. All organizations must submit constitutions to the club before they organize and the faculty is eager to listen to C.C. recomendations. Recently, after a two year absence, keg beer was returned to College Hill at the council's petition. The Camarion is now considering a plan to place Brown under an honor system. Side by side with the student council, the independent, commutor, and fraternity councils attempt to weld the college into...