Word: offseting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head-turning beauty and proud daughter of a mayor in pre-Castro Cuba would not occur to someone sitting opposite her on the subway. Yet as a character endowed with romantic yearnings, she is hard to ignore. Hijuelos' episodic format doesn't quite gel. But that is more than offset by his emotional fine tuning and pitch-perfect prose...
Higher wages also lead to lower turnover, lower absenteeism, and higher morale-windfalls that offset increased labor costs; in the long run, the University might even save money. Cities that have passed living wage ordinances have not experienced the capital flight and labor retrenchment predicted by wide-eyed libertarian Cassandras...
According to a UMass press release, in order to offset the decrease in minority students in its incoming classes, the school will take specific steps to improve the yield of students of color. UMass'yield for students of color is currently lowerthan for non-minority students...
...From the offset, the Harvard Klan was a silent beast. Hooded Klansmen did not hold massive demonstrations in Tercentenary Theater; progressive leaders of the era were not hung in effigy in the Yard. Yet-at least according to a prominent Klansman who spoke to The Crimson in 1923-the Harvard Klan was far from a fringe association. The Harvard Klan, he said, is inactive. But it is very far from being disorganized, nor can I even say now its influence is unfelt...
...sees only a 20% chance of recession, vs. the fifty-fifty odds some economists were quoting as recently as September. She expects a leveling off in housing and a decline in nonresidential construction, as well as "a widening of the trade gap," but thinks they will be largely offset by further gains in consumer spending, business investment in information technology and "some increase in government spending." Profits of companies whose stocks are included in the Standard & Poor's 500 index will rise about 5%, she forecasts, vs. a flat performance this year but well below the double-digit gains...