Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only major ones in the library system for the time being. Houghton Library will hire three men to take the place of its regular employees on Saturday mornings, and thus will be able to maintain its normal hours. Lamont's staff will also be augmented in order to offset the decreased work week...
Teele stated that the University will defer retirements of employees who wish to continue working in order to become eligible under the Act. Retired employees benefitting from Social Security will receive reduced contributions from the University's Retirement Plan, but the new benefits would favorably offset such reductions...
...loan to Spain was designed to smooth the way for U.S. aid to another dictator whom the Administration was more eager than Congress to help: Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito. With Spain assured of its pot of gold, President Truman asked congressional leaders for money to Tito to offset a famine which might, said the President, topple Tito from power. President Truman did not deny that Tito was a Communist; he simply did not mention it. "Tito's defection from Kremlin control represents the first setback for Soviet imperialism and as such is an important political symbol," explained...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., November 11--Two mistakes by the freshman football team offset a fine passing display by Captain Dick Clasby and gave Brown's freshman team a 21 to 20 victory over the Yardlings in the Brown Stadium today...
...left. The delegates watched it with frank fascination. When he made his familiar, chopping gestures, the shadow appeared to be boxing Vishinsky's ears unmercifully, an illusion which was intensified by the President's words. His plea for a "foolproof" disarmament was obviously meant to offset Russia's phony peace talk...