Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral guidelines to very specific elements of U.S. policy. Tactical nuclear weapons based in Western Europe to repel a Soviet conventional attack present "an unacceptable moral risk" because it is unlikely that any battlefield nuclear exchange could be limited. (NATO's tactical nuclear weapons are supposed to offset the Soviets' 2.6-to-l advantage in tanks and other conventional weapons.) The MX missile, the bishops say, might be destabilizing; since it threatens the Soviets' missiles, it could prompt Moscow to launch a pre-emptive strike...
...Nuremberg" to investigate the massacre, while the mass-circulation al Akbar declared that the incident had demonstrated that Israel is "militarist, fascist and terrorist." Along the same line, Egypt's Defense Minister, Abdel Halim Abu Ghazala, called on Arab countries to develop a "joint strategy" in order to offset Israel's increasing military superiority. It was quite a departure from the spirit of Camp David...
...merchandise gap is now more than offset by U.S. surpluses in other international transactions. The U.S. sells more services abroad (such as those of engineering and construction firms) than it buys. Moreover, despite the large inflows of foreign capital, the U.S. still earns more from its foreign investments (in dividends and interest, for example) than it pays out. But some economists expect the merchandise deficit to rise so much that it will offset the surpluses elsewhere in the U.S. balance of payments...
...year starting Oct. 1 vs. 6 million to 8 million tons that the Soviets are now committed to buy. The move was calculated to please farmers who have been badly hurt by the recession. He also signed a $3.8 billion job-training bill. Whether such efforts can offset the Democratic wailing about widespread unemployment remains to be seen. Indeed, the election shapes up as one in which citizens face a tormenting question: whether to "stay the course" with policies that ask them to suffer high unemployment today for the sake of a so far unfulfilled promise of future healthy growth...
...even where hard numbers are involved, those who publicize such trends are bound to notice the need for some good news to offset the bad Cameron notes, for instance, that the Board's "unplanned" third release "might have been handled a lot differently" if the board hadn't known that minority scores had climbed...