Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Both efforts argued that the union's rigid bureaucratic structure would hamper employer-employee relations, and stressed what they called District 65's poor record both in organizing elections and in negotiations. Each implied that the union was seeking to organize in Massachusetts only to generate dues revenue to offset losses from its New York operation; as Edward W. Powers, Harvard's associate general counsel for employee relations, said, "In a sense, the union needs Harvard more than Harvard needs the union." And finally, both campaigns were "labor-intensive"--both Sytek and Steiner agree that the efforts required far more...
Carter's advisers are banking on his broad popularity to offset the business community's concerns. A majority of Americans seem willing, so far, to give him the benefit of ihe doubt. Carter also benefits from a post-Viet Nam, post-Watergate, post-Richard Nixon phenomenon: lowered expectations. Few Americans feel that a President can work magic or cure all ills. "That may be a plus," says Carter Pollster Pat Caddell. At the moment, it may be one of the biggest that Jimmy Carter has going...
...even Ambler's skills can make fiscal crimes committed via telex or computer as gripping as older forms of skulduggery. Still, The Siege of the Villa Lipp has more than enough cerebral twists and sophisticated wit to offset its comparative bloodlessness. And Ambler includes sufficient shocks to show that he has not forgotten how to put his horrors before his cartel...
...maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated from House to House, as Fox has said he hopes to do, these savings will disappear next year anyway. Starting the cycle in Mather or Dunster would make no financial difference; but it would probably help to offset Mather's other problems, such as overcrowding, an unfavorable sex ratio, and distance from the Yard. These problems are so severe that Fox should consider opening Mather and Lowell for hot breakfasts, instead of Leverett and Quincy, a plan that would require the opening of no more kitchens than does...
...earnings that were not -with the proceeds to be devoted, perhaps, to joint federal-private exploitation of resources that are particularly difficult and expensive to tap, such as those lying under water on the outer continental shelf. The impact of rising prices on the poor could be offset by a system of federal gasoline and heating stamps, similar to food stamps. This proposal was rejected as too cumbersome...