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...million chunk will go to the Cambridge Hospital to offset projected shortfalls in revenues. The allocation would allow the Cambridgeport and Kennedy neighborhood health clinics to remain fully staffed...
...clubs have essentially one place to run for new infusions of income to offset their new tax burden the pockets of their alumni. Their task as fundraisers is hampered by the fact that since they are not public charities, they can not offer tax deductions for contributions...
Almost simultaneously, Warsaw Pact Commander Marshal Viktor Kulikov, speaking on the eve of a Soviet bloc foreign ministers' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, outlined the retaliatory measures Moscow is prepared to take in the event of deployment. Kulikov vowed that the Soviets would "deploy additional nuclear weapons to offset NATO'S growing nuclear might in Europe and we shall take corresponding countermeasures with regard to U.S. territory." It was another explicit warning that Moscow is prepared to introduce new missiles into Eastern Europe and mount new cruise-type missiles on refurbished submarines that could patrol U.S. coastal waters. Though...
...NewsChannels went on the air in June 1982, officials of the cable-TV service predicted they would soon put Ted Turner's rival Cable News Network out of business. SNC's corporate parents, ABC and Westinghouse, boasted greater news-gathering assets than CNN and deeper pockets to offset losses. The stock market agreed: after SNC was an nounced, the over-the-counter price of a share of Turner Broadcasting System fell from $16 to $11.50 in two days. But last week David conquered Goliath with his checkbook. Turner bought out SNC for $25 million in order to shut...
...offset the play's some what tenuous grip of reality, aged photos are intermittently flashed against the set. Sometimes the pictures help us relate to the stylized movements on stage by giving us a sense of context, but at other times these just complicate an already nebulous plot. For example, Bolden and a fictional photographer named Bellocq make a pact in which the musician supplies his friend with nude women for subjects. Besides the questionable relation of the episode to the plot, the constant flashing of nudes borders on the offensive and pornographic...