Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Zachary Taylor, known as "Old Rough and Ready" in his 40-year military career, was considered a poor tactician, but this was offset by a redeeming quality: he won battles. His early victories in the Mexican War (1846) made him a national hero, but President Polk and his Cabinet were critical of surrender terms granted Mexicans after the Battle of Monterrey. Taylor not only hotly defended his actions, but wrote a scathing letter criticizing the Administration. The letter was made public and Taylor was reprimanded. He refused to be silenced. He sent off another bitter letter of protest, which...
...people they had met. Their conclusions: "We would be willing to live on almost any Polynesian island. We'd think ourselves lucky to be able to live on Tahiti or Rarotonga. We could enjoy a year or two on even the loneliest atolls. The inconveniences would be offset by the joyous life-patterns of the people who would share them with...
...white trays easily, have more usable food space, and are good to look at as trays go. There is just one hitch. the partitions separating the food compartments are too low--and french dressing constantly mixing with the mashed potatoes will be discouraging enough to offset the many good features of the new trays...
Ready to Cross? "We have now substantially cleared South Korea of organized Communist forces . . . The enemy's human wave tactics definitely [have] failed . . . With the development of existing methods of mass destruction, numbers alone do not offset vulnerability inherent in . . . deficiencies . . . [in] tanks, heavy artillery and other refinements science has introduced into the conduct of military campaigns . . . Red China . . . has been shown its complete inability to accomplish by force of arms the conquest of Korea...
...Queuille's plans for a new government, no party's sentiments were overlooked. He offered the Socialists and other leftist deputies an increase in the minimum wage. Rightists were assured that resulting price boosts would not be offset by widespread consumer subsidies. Queuille promised the farmers a subsidy on commercial fertilizer prices, the workers a subsidy to keep coal and electricity prices from rising more than 10%. He said that he would raise funds for the new subsidies as painlessly as possible, by taxes on "uncommon goods" and exports...