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...said that the University is attempting to offset the cutbacks by cutting energy costs, and by eliciting increased donations from the private sector...
...resources of wood and water. He claims enthusiastically that Michigan's borders embrace or touch on 20% of the nation's fresh water, while booming Sunbelt states are running dry. He has not specified, however, how the water can be used or how lower water costs can offset the state's winter fuel costs...
...Experts estimate that at puberty, when there is a spurt in bone growth, people require 1,200 mg of calcium daily (the equivalent of four glasses of milk or about 6 oz. of hard cheese). Postmenopausal women require 1,500 mg to offset the resorption process...
...Europeans who initially urged the U.S. to develop and deploy the new missiles reasoned that they would offset the growing arsenal of intermediate-range Soviet SS-20s while giving the U.S. bargaining strength in any future arms negotiations. Beginning in 1977, Schmidt led the campaign for the Europeans. In so doing, he was trying to ensure that the U.S. would remain faithful to its pledge, made when the alliance was formed in 1949, to defend NATO's European members...
Says Karen Nussbaum, 31, a union official in Cleveland: "Organizing white-collar workers is now make or break for the trade-union movement." Inroads are being made by some unions, among white-and gray-collar workers in health care, teaching and government, which tend to offset the blue-collar losses...