Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...September rise was less than 2%. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its index (1947-1949 = 100) reached 115.2 in mid-September. It stood at 113.4 m February, 115 in August. Between August and September food prices dropped a little, but the decline was more than offset by increased costs for clothing, housing, recreation, medical care, services...
...Stuart believes that such free-wheeling research is the best way to assure his company's growth. "I get tired," he says, "of hearing all this defeatist talk about how it is impossible for a company to continue to grow under this tax structure ... All it takes to offset them is a little extra sweat, a little more guts, and quite a bit more brains...
...Greep, Dean of the Dental School, stated last night that his school would make an attempt "for more scholarships and loan money," to offset the tuition rise...
...Daylight flows through photoelectrically controlled skylights, and this "provides new uses for window walls. Since they are not used for lighting, we have used them as display areas, with shelves for classroom exhibits." The school is heated through pipes under the floors, and plastic classroom ceilings are yellow to offset the grey Northwest skies. Furthermore, says Burkhard, "Foster is completely designed for earthquake resistance. You could empty the school in 15 seconds, and anyhow, there is nothing but plastics to fall on the kids' heads...
...Ralph Herbert) takes Juno and the other gods on a junket to Hades, where they bump into Eurydice; after a few random shots from Cupid's bow, everything ends in a happy shambles. The "go-to-hell" joke is worked pretty hard in the dialogue, but that is offset by Offenbach's tunes. At least two of them. An Old Love Dies and Brunswick Maine, could be hits in any century...