Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deserves a couple of critics' stars on guts alone: he has consciously borrowed the impressionistic slice-of-life framework of Nashville and made it work with even less of a plot than Robert Altman's cinematic paradigm. Granted that the basically uncommercial quality of the format has been somewhat offset by the presence of a galaxy of New Hollywood actors; but from a strictly critical standpoint, Rudolph has effectively invited comparisons with his famous mentor that would seem to place his first major work at an almost fatal disadvantage. Yet Welcome to L.A. still manages to equal and even surpass...
Limiting the breakfast menus in eight of the Houses will partially offset the increased costs, saving Food Services $102,000 of the $165,300 projected added cost next year...
Strict guidelines will be laid down to force appliance makers to produce highly efficient irons, hair dryers, refrigerators, electric ranges and the like. In the long run, thriftier appliances will help consumers to offset, at least in part, rising energy costs. Stringent efficiency standards will also be mandated for factory equipment...
...White House rhetoric "has not demonstrably discouraged the Soviets from cracking down on dissidents. Although ailing Dr. Mikhail Shtern was released from a Ukrainian prison last week (and this may have some connection to the approach of the Vance visit), it might be argued that this was more than offset by the almost simultaneous arrest of Jewish Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, the 29-year-old computer expert who has been an unofficial spokesman for the human rights movement in the U.S.S.R. The officially controlled Soviet press continues to print vicious attacks on dissidents, U.S. diplomats and journalists. If anything, the shrillness...
CHILD CARE provisions are broadened, allowing many more working parents to offset baby-sitting costs. Through last year, a parent or couple could deduct up to $4,800 a year in child-care expenses; now they get a maximum tax credit of $400 a child (limit: $800). The credit can be taken by parents no matter how rich; the old deduction dwindled for people with incomes of $35,000 or more, and stopped altogether at $44,600. The credit is available to people who could not claim the deduction: for example, couples consisting of one worker and one student...