Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...world, but odd personal eras, those less obtrusive small changes that in retrospect loom large in the heart. Like the time, at the close of Prohibition, when Hallowell's restaurant in Edgartown got a liquor license and went to hell, gastronomically speaking. Or the introduction of offset printing in place of the old linotype at the Vineyard Gazette. At the time Hough, somewhat uneasily, one suspects, tried to see it all as progress. He quotes Carlyle: "He who first shortened the labor of copyists by the device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings...
Hale Champion, vice president for financial affairs said yesterday that fees might be necessary to offset operating costs at the Fogg Art Museum and Busch-Reisinger Museum of Germanic Culture...
Coburn said that less than one-third of the Fogg's budget comes from endowment. The museum must rent classroom spaces, and seek government grants and contracts the offset the cost of running the facility...
HAPPILY, director Paul Suchecki has offset the poorly chosen script with a fine pair of actors. Ed Redlich's Murph swaggers and spits his lines with the air of someone who is not too bright but whose instinct will take care of him; he's like a chubby rodent that senses when to burrow and when to flee. Alan Stock plays a jittery boy with a cramped intelligence. His Joey is more attuned to emotions than is Murph: the taut nervousness in his shying gait, as though his hip joints were connected to his insteps by elastic bands, seems...
...Edgar Grossman, an Extension School alumnus and a counselor for the Extension School's students, whose family funded the school's library in Lehman Hall, says there is a possibility of different standards with teachers from other schools, but he says he does not think it is substantial. To offset potential discrepancies, the school requires degree candidates to take ten of their 32 necessary courses with Harvard faculty. "I don't feel my degree is worth any less than my brother's Harvard degree, or yours," Grossman says...