Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pakistan would especially like the planes to help offset the military superiority of India, Pakistan's enemy in three wars since 1947. New Delhi has already protested Washington's plans to send AWACS to Pakistan, with some effect. One U.S. official says the Reagan Administration has decided to hand over the planes only if their use is limited to the Afghan border region. Islamabad is unlikely to go along with such a requirement. The outcome of the AWACS debate may depend on who blinks first. Washington is reluctant to jeopardize its ability to help the mujahedin, and Pakistan does...
...brother, who were described by Bonn officials as "completely bewildered" by Mathias' spectacular dilemma. Said one investigator: "He was a nice, quiet, dedicated young man from whom no one expected great deeds, or great misadventures either." The Rust family decided to sell the rights to their story, presumably to offset some $100,000 in fines and charges that Mathias could face, to the weekly West German picture magazine Stern...
...cost could have been much greater. The bank's anticipated $2.5 billion loss in the second quarter is expected to be offset by three profitable quarters, to bring the year-end loss back to $1 billion. The company aims to return to profitability next year. And within three years, Citicorp plans to reduce its Third World debt portfolio by about one third, or $5 billion. The bank intends to sell some of the loans at a discount and transform others through so-called debt-for-equity swaps, in which the loan becomes an investment in the borrower country...
Though many colleges award aid to low income students and have developed programs to offset declining minority enrollment, officials say it is precisely the students from underprivileged areas who are less likely to be aware of help available to them and shy away from higher education under the perception that it is a luxury that they can't afford...
...Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia to 1982's My Favorite Year). On one level O'Toole is playing off public awareness of his decades-old reputation as a brawling, boozing boyo. As he puts it in an interview -- with a trademark rueful smile, offset by trademark wells of sadness in his deep blue eyes -- the message is, "You've seen him drunk, now see him sober...