Word: offseting
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According to the agreement, part-time workers will receive the same health benefits as full-time workers for another year while negotiators work on a final compromise. Changes in wage agreements and workers' short term disability plans will offset the cost of the health benefits...
Coordinators are hoping that these and other student-oriented businesses will pay for advertising on dance tickets and party favors. The extra funding will be used to offset the low ticket prices...
...centerpiece of the tax cut package is a $500-per-child credit for children younger than 13 in families with an income of up to $75,000. Cost: $46 billion. Another $36.1 billion of Clinton's tax relief stems from a tax credit and deduction for college. To offset those give-aways, the President wants to raise taxes by $76 billion, hitting multinational corporations, closing loopholes and extending existing taxes like the airline ticket tax. Maneuvering room is limited in a budget that tries to expand benefits while cutting spending. One of the biggest obligations in the budget...
None of this ethical purity would have been possible without a $9 million surplus left over from the 1993 Inaugural. The rest of the $30 million cost will be offset by the sale of tickets and trinkets, like the $39.95 bronze medallion, featuring likenesses of Clinton and Al Gore, available from the qvc shopping channel. (During one brief three-hour segment, buyers phoned in orders for the commemorative item totaling, on average, $10,800 a minute.) But home shopping is at least democratic; the sale of tickets to special Inaugural events is not. Democratic donors won the right to purchase...
...more importantly, Commencement dates have been planned since time immemorial. Many overeager family members have already booked hotel and plane reservations, to say nothing of the changes that would have to be made to the Courses of Instruction calendar. Although this consideration is significant (somewhat), it does not offset the clear advantages of a revamped schedule...