Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, stores have used less obtrusive forms of co-advertising, called co-oping, in their catalogs to offset the rising costs of postage and printing. An advertiser showing a Christian Dior dress, say, often shares the costs fifty-fifty with the store. Dallas-based Neiman-Marcus carries no ads in its catalogs, but since 1981, it has sent a slick fashion magazine, now called NM, with features and ads free to its 900,000 active credit-card holders...
...million since 1979 to cover losses at the morning Detroit Free Press (circ. 646,476). The smaller, family-run Evening News Association, which owns the all-day Detroit News (circ. 666,949), has paid even more. It allegedly used revenues from five television and two radio stations to offset an estimated $41.5 million in losses at the paper from 1981 to 1984. ENA Chairman Peter B. Clark has defended the News like a crusader in a holy war; the paper was founded by his great-grandfather James E. Scripps in 1873. Last week, however, Clark's efforts to uphold family...
...past two years, Shelter Inc. has been combing the right Cambridge housing market in search of a building to offset the the city's growing homeless population. Although the group already operates a 20-bed overnight shelter on School St. and a 35-bed facility for families in Boston, Shelter Inc.'s directors recognized a pressing need for transitional housing in the Hub area. Such transitional shelters provide homeless men and women with a temporary residence for several months as they seek employment, gain income, and acquire a permanent home...
...experience of earning money is central to their delighted discovery of their own worth. Some 50% of immigrant women work, about the same as U.S. women. Even for those who have traded their white-collar jobs at home for blue-collar jobs here, the drop in status is offset by the satisfaction of a significant rise in income and the hope of moving on. Anna Cruz-Vasquez is 56 and divorced. She came alone from the Dominican Republic in 1977 and with a garment-industry job that has never paid % more than $130 a week has managed to send...
Those savings, though, will be at least partly offset by a long-debated federal access charge of $1 per month that begins showing up in June on phone bills of millions of Americans. The fee will increase to $2 next year. The surcharge will be given to local phone companies to help make up for the loss of subsidies from long-distance service that the Bell System formerly funneled to them so that they could keep down local phone costs...