Word: offsets
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...years as the Triad. The name comes from the fact that U.S. strategic nuclear weapons are based in the water, on land and in the air. Defense strategists agree almost universally that all three legs of the Triad are essential because each by itself has weaknesses that are offset only by the strengths of the other two. Land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), for example, are the most accurate and powerful strategic weapons in the nation's arsenal, but the fixed underground silos in which they are stored also make them the most vulnerable. Airborne bombers, which can be recalled...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who has supervised the computerization process this year, argues that the curriculum is far more important than the computers and that the effect computers may have could be offset by a change in academic goals...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who has supervised the computerization process this year, argues that the curriculum is far more important than the computers and that the effect computers may have could be offset by a change in academic goals...
Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, who has supervised the computerization process this year, argues that the curriculum is far more important than the computers and that the effect computers may have could be offset by a change in academic goals...
...crowds flocking to video stores represent an important new source of income for Hollywood. Home-video revenues only slightly offset the deficits of big-budget extravaganzas like The Cotton Club and Dune. But smaller films can go a long way toward recouping their costs with cassette sales. "The producer can anticipate a profit even without a theatrical success and, in some cases, without a theatrical release," says Jon Peisinger, president of Vestron Video. "More movies today are created simply on the basis of potential revenues from home video." Vestron was the distributor of The Warrior and the Sorceress, for example...