Word: offseting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What's clearest is that Congress has created a record-keeping nightmare. "We believe the forms are now so complex that for some people the savings will be offset by the need to hire professional guidance," says Roberto Viceconte, a tax attorney at M.R. Weiser & Co. in New York City. He notes that there is already a movement in Congress to simplify the changes. But for '97 your tax return will have to allow for a baffling set of rates...
...self-respecting restaurant designer would have a field day with the salt shakers here, and Salts does not disappoint. The salt is offered in a wide, black matte clay bowl, offset by a simple wooden spoon. The restaurant's name is a reference to the ancient practice of offering salt as a sign of hospitality. Apropriately enough, the waitstaff is remarkably hospitable and prompt, and capably serving the spot's unusually delicious food...
However, there are ways to offset the cost of bottled water. "It's much cheaper to just buy one bottle, and then keep refilling it," asserts Jackson. She refills her brand-name bottle with Cambridge water, even though it isn't as pure as the original product...
Last Friday, Tripp issued a statement to offset her image as the villain of the piece. But it's too late for that. It's now clear that Tripp made the tapes not because she wanted to forestall a challenge to her veracity if she had to out Monica Lewinsky the way she did Kathleen Willey. She didn't put them in a vault to be used defensively. She voluntarily played them for Ken Starr in a pre-emptive strike against the White House she hated, at the expense of the person she had befriended. She readily became an informant...
...snows between Plympton Street and the Freshman Union. Down in the shop, we put together the paper in a frantic, beer-fueled haze. Around 5 a.m., the dread moment finally arrived--when, in the absence of pressman Lew Brooks, we would have to wrestle with The Crimson's hulking offset press by ourselves...