Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the re-arrival of Curry is offset by the loss of starting quarterback Tim Davenport. Davenport, the riflearmed senior, toiled patiently for the two previous seasons behind King Total Offense Jim Kubacki, and finally gained a starting berth this autumn...
...Laker struck back later in the week by proposing to the British government some revisions in his own plan (Washington's approval is not required). He requested that his baggage weight limit be lifted from 33 to 44 Ibs., equal to what the larger carriers will offer. To offset the bigger lines' advantage of landing at convenient Heathrow Airport, Laker wants to touch down at Gatwick, which is served by rail (though it is still about 40 minutes from London) and more accessible than the far-off Stansted field, where he first proposed to land. He also wants...
...main propellants in the second-quarter advance were increased government spending and capital investment and steady growth in new home construction. They were enough to offset a leveling off in retail sales, which accounted for much of the snap and ginger in the economy in the first quarter...
...Patterns. The capital invasion is heartily welcomed by Washington. Commerce Department officials eagerly note that besides helping to offset somewhat the U.S.'s currently huge import bill (TIME, July 11), foreign investments in manufacturing have helped provide jobs (1.5 million by Commerce's reckoning) and broaden the tax base of local governments. Foreigners, for their part, are often surprised by the freedom of operation they enjoy in the U.S. Foreign businessmen find a tolerance of competition that would be inconceivable in their own countries. Example: Lucas Industries, the big British auto-parts maker, dispatched...
NONATTAINMENT. Because areas that do not meet the 1970 act's minimal clean-air requirements cannot legally attract more polluting industry, the EPA last fall announced a Solomonic compromise: it would permit new factories and power plants in a "nonattainment" area if their pollution was offset by curbs on existing emissions. It is under such an arrangement that Volkswagen is building its first U.S. assembly plant-in New Stanton, Pa. Yet the imaginative offset policy has touched off howls from industry, and the Carter Administration wants another year to study its effects. In a surprising reversal, the House voted...