Word: offseting
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...report also carried a pledge by Japan to spend $2.77 trillion over the next 10 years on public works projects to stimulate demand for imports and help offset this nation's huge reservoir of savings. Japan has spent $1.7 trillion in the past 10 years...
Though Californians have approved small tax increases on a local level in recent years, the state faces a $3.6 billion budget shortfall. With state funds shrinking, many spending burdens have been passed down to localities, which in turn pass them along to new-home buyers. To offset the cost of sewage and street building, parks and schools, local governments began imposing "impact fees" of as much as $25,000 for a newly built home. So it was no less important that California voters also agreed last week to loosen the state spending cap and exclude certain expenditures from the limits...
...solo spot at CBS since March 1981, have dropped 55% from their peak. Brokaw is down 44% from his high point. And while Peter Jennings, the regular ABC anchor since 1983, has helped lift his network into the lead, the gains by ABC World News Tonight do not fully offset the losses at the rival networks. Something new is needed to bring the lost viewers back. To judge from the past eight months of surging public affection for her, Jane Pauley just may have...
...realm of metabolism," observes Dr. Theodore VanItallie of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. But this evidence could also lead to despair. If people are born to be fat, are attempts to slim down doomed? No, say weight specialists. Low-fat diets and exercise can help offset heredity. People may inherit a propensity to obesity, but it need not be their destiny...
...plant's output showed that this hypothesis was unfounded. More important, the aviation industry switched from rayon cord to metallic cord. Whatever rationale the Baikal complex may once have had -- and it never offset the potential harm to the lake -- vanished. Construction nevertheless went ahead, with whole armies of officials defending their decision and saving face by insisting on the complex's importance for the defense of the country, the usual clinching argument...