Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade problem is much thornier than that. One of the most immediate effects of a dollar decline should be a decrease in foreign travel by Americans -- but there the U.S. suffered a $5.2 billion deficit last year. Apparently, the rising cost of staying in Paris or Rome has been offset by cheaper air fares, among other things. Moreover, even while the international purchasing power of the dollar has declined since the Plaza Accord, the price of imported goods in the U.S. has often failed to rise by an equivalent amount (see chart). The explanation: foreign exporters have been willing...
...rent paid by Festoon Records, the proposed tenant, will more than offset the club's additional tax burden, according to one club member who asked not to be named...
...Teams know that we have great perimeter shooters and put undue pressure on the perimeter," Delaney Smith said. To offset the loss of strong scoring performances by its guards, Delaney Smith said that Harvard needed to capitalize on its play in the lane, but that the Crimson has yet to prove that its inside game can function without last year's power players Collins and Chandler...
...Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will use the grant from the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to help offset the $28 million building costs...
...because of the original gap in prices, the trader has already locked in a profit, often called synthetic cash. If stock prices rise, the arbitrager will make a handsome return upon selling the shares; the money lost on the futures side of the transaction will not be enough to offset the profit because the price at which the futures were sold was overly high to start with. In the opposite scenario, falling stock prices will cause the trader to lose money on the stocks but more than make up for that loss on the sale of the overpriced futures...