Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he was Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, his humor has lost its nasty edge. He has mellowed personally and become more moderate politically. His stock soared during the last session when, almost singlehanded, he shepherded through Congress $98.3 billion worth of tax hikes designed to offset the staggering federal deficit...
...these factors may be offset by equally powerful negative forces. The greatest of these is, of course, unemployment, which in November was running at a post-Depression high of 10.8% of the US. work force. Members of 20% of American families have experienced some joblessness this year, says Woolworth's Tolep...
...personal shoppers who, provided with your gift list, money, and mail instructions, would "never give up on their search for the perfect present for the trusting soul." Or, if you preferred to shop in New York, an elegant room at the Plaza Hotel cost five dollars a night and offset the drudgery of last minute shopping. Standing out in many shop windows would be the new semi-portable Electrola radio...
...been more instructive if he had used a chart showing total strategic ballistic missile warheads rather than just ICBM launchers. Such a chart would have shown the two sides roughly equal with upwards of 7,000 warheads, since America's 5-to-2 advantage in SLBM warheads helps offset the Soviets' 5-to-2 advantage in ICBM warheads...
...West, notably Ronald Reagan, to an alarming conclusion: despite its declared aspiration merely to attain parity with the U.S., the U.S.S.R. has actually achieved across-the-board superiority. But that judgment does not take sufficiently into account a number of problems that plague the Soviet Union and offset what otherwise might be decisive advantages. Precisely because it has been so unrestrained in beefing up its military might and throwing its weight around the world, the Soviet Union has provoked countermeasures by the West that will further complicate the U.S.S.R.'s defense planning as well as help deter it from...