Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yale's attempt to play big-time football resulted in its ten-game winning streak being snapped, 28-14, at the hands of Miami of Ohio. Two first-half touchdowns by John Pagliaro and a 92-yard rushing day by running mate Rich Angelone were highlights offset by two fourth-quarter touchdowns by Miami...
Such fear is unwarranted. The possible temporary reduction of opportunity for a few white males is more than offset by the social benefits of using special considerations for minorities. Such consideration is necessary to help the nation through a transitional period between the pervasive exclusion of minorities from opportunities--an exclusion that has characterized our history thus far--and a future time of racial equality in which affirmative action programs will no longer be needed...
...plastic dishes and utensils in many of the eight dining halls serving continental, or cold breakfasts, represents a wasteful and ecologically unsound practice that should be changed. Certainly, there are savings in energy and time to be gained by not washing breakfast dishes in those Houses. These savings are offset, however, by the cost in energy and resources needed to make the dishes in the first place, and by the fact that the discarded dishes, being non-biodegradable, add to an already serious environmental problem when thrown...
...political surprises of the year has been the inability of organized labor to win its way with the Carter Administration or the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress, despite its heavy campaign support of both. A conservative mood in Washington and the efforts of a newly vigorous business lobby have offset AFL-CIO influence. Big Labor failed to persuade Carter to appoint many of its favorites to high Administration posts. The AFL-CIO also suffered a painful defeat when Congress rejected the common-situs picketing bill. Labor leaders blamed the common-situs loss on their own failure to realize how hard a lobbying...
John Maguire, dean of admissions, records and financial aid at Boston College, said last week, "I'm sure that there are schools that have tried to offset economic pressure by over-enrollment." Although B.C. this fall had to temporarily house 94 freshmen in a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge. Maguire said the college was not over-enrolled. He said the students were placed in the hotel because of an unexpectedly low attrition rate among upperclassmen left a shortage of empty rooms on-campus to house all the freshmen...