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...activities, like athletics," she explains. When there are more students in each classroom, those who will suffer most, she predicts are those at either end of the spectrum, high achievers and problem cases. Berman further predicts that a fee system for special activities will have to be instituted to offset costs, a move "which would be a serious problem considering the number of students who come from families at the poverty level...
...offset cutbacks with commercials...
...blood may be draining out of the Harvard squash program this year as senior Reese. Robie and Charlie Duffy leave, but there's some quality new blood coming in to offset the loss...
...York City, warns that default would set off "an unholy scramble" to grab the few Polish assets in the West. Unlike Iran, which had an estimated $12 billion in gold and bank deposits that was frozen by the U.S. Government in 1979, Poland has relatively little to offset its huge debt. Any effort to attach its ships or jetliners that happen to be in the West would create a nightmarish financial and legal snarl that would take years to untangle...
...offset Kissinger in a 707 jet that had been used occasionally by Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy as Air Force One. Though Nixon "was chafing at my growing prominence," writes Kissinger, he approved the trip. Perhaps he hoped that "some spectacular success could demonstrate his indispensability and thereby end his torment." Or perhaps he was simply heeding one of the notes he was making at the time on how to wage a campaign against impeachment; a Jan. 5 entry said, "Act like a President. " First stop, on Jan. 11, was Aswan, some 400 miles south of Cairo...