Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough to offset the heartbreak of racial insults and random attacks from young white thugs. The Ullahs and their children-Daughters Sonia, 15, Shazia, 14, and Samia, 10, and Son Sohail, 6-believe they are living a life under siege, and they have had enough. This year they are returning to Pakistan. "This country is not my home," declares Ismat Ullah, "but I have learned something here I'll value as long as I live: to work hard, to be tolerant and to fight and not give...
...well as honor their craft by setting the record straight. Indeed, most irate critics of bias in the press cite stories from other parts of the press to prove their case. For readers of almost any ideological stripe, the perceived or actual bias of some publication can be offset by the availability of others. In soliciting subscriptions from new readers, the conservative weekly Human Events, for example, cites the "distortions of the major networks and your daily newspaper" and offers as an antidote its own pages...
...professors said that Reagan Administration officials privately support Feldstein's public call for possible tax increases to offset soaring budget deficits...
...negotiator in Geneva, Yuli Kvitsinsky, "If the U.S. really wants to go to zero, the U.S.S.R. is prepared to go to zero too, retaining only what it needs to offset the British and French forces." That would mean needs to offset the British and French forces." That would mean retaining about 250 Soviet bombers and missiles, including at least 162 SS-20s, while the U.S. would still have to forgo entirely its Pershing IIs and Tomahawks...
Although the set music and costumes are appropriately Mid Eastern, and the legend upon which the drama is based is authentic, the effect is political and modern rather than artistic and entertaining. Thus, the very witty lines and enticing music barely offset the feeling that one has just heard a very confused feminist tract...