Word: offseting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes it much harder to raise taxes than under the current 51 percent vote required.) The tax reform package, a key element of the party's 10-point "Contract with America," also bans retroactive tax increases and allows leeway only for revenue-raising hikes and others to offset any forthcoming capital gains cuts. The GOP also formally embraced a series of rule changes that will force staff cuts, limit committee chairmen to three consecutive terms and eliminate all $5 million in funds for 28 legislative support groups, such as the Congressional Black Caucus. Howls of protests from Democrats were immediately...
...children was the manifestation of a person with a serious mental condition and suicidal instincts. As her children were a very piece of her own self, the ending of their lives in a certain way successfully repeats Smith's reported suicide attempts. Such an explanation does not offset the horror of her deeds, but may give a psychological alibi for monstrous and unthinkable infanticide. Her lawyers could argue that she loved her children as she loved herself...
...negative effects of having more than one alcoholic drink per day may wipe out any benefits to the heart, says a new report. The 11-year study showed that any decreased risk of men dying from heart disease was offset by an increase in deaths from cancer...
...physicians have been reluctant to treat patients with drugs that lower cholesterol. Not only are the medications expensive (as much as $1,000 a year), but they also have been dogged by an inexplicable anomaly: in studies of patients who take them, declines in fatal heart attacks have been offset by a mysterious rise in deaths from other causes. As attractive as the cholesterol-reducing pills might seem, nobody had yet proved that they actually save lives...
...were spending more, the inflation danger would be much more real than it is now," Rivlin told reporters. "You'd have rapid increases in interest rates, and probably throw the economy into a recession." Republicans fired back: Rep. John Kasich (R-Ohio) said any GOP tax cut would be offset by spending cuts, and tweaked Rivlin for partisanship. "I think she needs to take a chill pill," he said...