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Statehood brought Hawaii Sizeable increases in funds for education, housing and transportation, but these benefits lately have been offset by a meteoric rise in environmental problems, militarism and in-migration by mainland Americans...
...They block one-on-one at the line, and it's effective. There's nothing fancy about it," Restic said. "But there are variations in defense we can use to offset the pattern. Carm (Cozza) hasn't changed much over the years, and their basic system is the same. It's power football, and we'll have to find some way to stop it. It's that simple...
...Ford should be able to carry on the basically sound Nixon policies. He would have one overriding advantage in dealing with foreign powers: their certainty that Ford would be in the White House for at least three more years. Nixon's great skills in foreign affairs are now alarmingly offset by the uncertainties about his future and his patent loss of power at home...
...bright spot of the day, the sterling run of Jeff Campbell, was offset, however, when, all-Ivy runner Jeff Brokaw was forced to drop out about a mile into the race with a calf injury. Brokaw had been counted on to provide some of the Crimson's scoring depth in yesterday's race, but it appears that he might also be out of the IC4As to be held in New York Monday...
...said that the "time for yourself" was important enough to offset the financial disadvantages that clinic work has. No clinic can hope to match the $50,000-$75,000 salaries that this decade's medical school students are apparently sniffing out. "I'm making less," Blevins said, "but I might have had to work all hours...