Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University, in fact, increased its goal by $100 million this year to offset inflation, to pay for increased faculty salaries and to make up for cuts in student aid. After two-and-a-half years, the campaign has so far brought in $216 million...
...Today's graduates are too sheltered," Patrick concludes, wiping cappucino foam off his new beard. He read an article in Esquire that said balding men could offset their loss of sex appeal by growing beards...
...Democrats, including most of the conservatives known as "boll weevils," were needed to offset the defection of 32 Republicans. These included a new conservative bloc of Republicans called the "yellow jackets," who supported the Latta plan on a key procedural tally but voted against final passage of the budget out of protest against high deficits, and a moderate G.O.P. group known as "gypsy moths," who objected to the cuts in domestic spending. One top White House aide, flying back from Europe with the President, joked: "What the whole congressional process needs is a good dose of insecticide...
While those increases on the whole are nowhere near enough to offset the federal cut, there is sufficient nibbling and chipping at the state and local levels to mitigate the hoped-for economic stimulus from the tax cut. This is especially true in the industrial states of the Midwest, where local governments are particularly hard pressed for revenue. Their once sturdy tax bases, proudly rooted in steel, autos, coal and muscle, have been eroded by the migration of people and companies to the Sunbelt, and by competition from more cost-efficient manufacturing operations in Japan and Europe. Most of them...
...furor over a letter critical of gays by Faculty member Edward I. Pattullo--both confronted gay sexuality squarely And if the level of discourse briefly improved in each case as the community plunged into psychological theorizing, both events also built up so much tension and misunderstanding as to nearly offset any gains in awareness...