Word: offseting
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Friedmann noted that such modest rate increases are an attempt to "be competitive with other museums" as well as to "offset museum costs...
...fundamentals of economics dictate that free trade benefits all countries involved. The advantages of trade unhindered by tariffs will more than offset the job losses in some sectors of the American economy. The enhanced flow of goods to Mexico will create jobs within the U.S. This job production will be in higher wage, higher skill industries-the kind of jobs that America wants in its future...
...long list of topics. Will an accelerated movement of American factories to Mexico to take advantage of lower wage rates occur at all, or will it be discouraged by such factors as higher U.S. productivity and poor Mexican transportation facilities? If there is such a movement, will it be offset by higher exports to Mexico of products like computers on which high Mexican tariffs will be eliminated? Will American plants in fact gain an incentive to stay home, because Mexico will have to repeal local-content laws that force many companies that want to sell there to manufacture there? Contrariwise...
...dealing has some Republicans who favor NAFTA hinting that they might bolt. Last Friday Representative Tom Ewing of Illinois asked Clinton to forgo a new $5-a-seat tax on overseas air travel to help offset lost tariff revenues. New taxes, said Ewing, could be NAFTA's "death knell...
Less than an hour after the problem was reported to Rattigan, the clock was functioning. "We went up to look at the control panel, and there were some electrical problems that offset the time. We like to keep it running," he said...