Word: offseting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Pieper says such measures don't even begin to offset the revenue loss that would occur with the proposed cuts...
...officers, in a form of self-imposed wrist slaps, will take pay cuts of up to 30% for six months and will forgo their annual bonuses. The bank itself sold $336 million worth of real estate in Tokyo, Osaka, Hiroshima and other cities last week to help offset the losses. The situation at Daiwa could hinder Japan's attempts to clean up its banking mess...
...have in mind. Even after outlining it, Republicans didn't have numbers to show how it would achieve $270 billion in savings over seven years. And much of those savings are targeted by Republicans not for the Medicare trust fund but for general government revenues, making them available to offset the G.O.P. tax cut. Senate majority leader Bob Dole's plan, released a day after Gingrich's, does a better job of making the numbers add up by offering both carrots and sticks. Seniors who opt to stay in traditional Medicare would see their out-of-pocket costs...
...more than a century a paragon of vertical integration--the tying together of suppliers and customers into one company. But now Allen calls vertical integration "an idea whose time has passed" and says that "we've reached the point where the advantages of our size will be offset by the time and costs in coordinating and integrating sometimes conflicting business strategies." Translation: the company's parts, notably telephone service and equipment manufacturing, are starting to get in one another...
These are all worst-case scenarios, and the report's authors acknowledge that plenty of uncertainties remain in their analysis. For example, as the world warms up, it should get cloudier; depending on what sort of clouds predominate, their shadows could offset the warming effect. And nobody knows how the deep ocean currents--which play a major but still murky role in world climate, channeling heat from one part of the globe to another--would respond to global warming...