Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed by profitmaking companies [July 4] raises a serious question: How will public facilities survive? Public hospitals are forced to accept Medicaid and indigent patients; private hospitals do so only to a nominal degree. Consequently, public hospitals need profits from well-to-do and well-insured patients to offset the large losses that Medicaid and nonpaying people generate. If these profits go instead to private hospitals, then a tax to support the public hospital is the only answer...
...relying on tactical nuclear weapons to deter Communist aggression in Europe. In Sakharov's view, the firing of a single nuclear weapon of any size anywhere would be all too likely to lead to all-out war. He urges a big Western buildup in conventional arms to offset present Soviet superiority and end the West's tacit dependence on nuclear weapons to close the conventional gap, while gloomily questioning: "Will the West's politicians be able to carry out such a restructuring...
...offset his lack of diplomatic experience, Motley should bring to Central America a familiarity with Latin ways, an understanding of the military mind and a smooth social adroitness. Dressed, characteristically, in blue jeans and sports shirt, he told TIME that a change in U.S. policy toward Latin America was not necessary. But he does believe that the disproportionate amount of attention Central America has attracted in Washington has obscured U.S. interests elsewhere in the hemisphere. After Motley's auspicious first week in his new position, one State Department official observed, "He might even come to be branded a pragmatist...
...person may need psychotherapy to get at the roots of his Type A behavior, while another needs nothing more than regular exercise and vacations. Just as responses to stress vary widely according to age, sex, temperament and other factors, so do the requirements for treatment to offset...
...reason, economists point out, for the auto industry's troubles, since it is one of the heaviest steel users. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Institute for International Economics in Washington: "In the long run, jobs saved by protection of one industry tend to be offset by the loss of jobs in other industries." In the short run, protectionism is a big contributor to inflation...