Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LATIN AMERICA. American tourists in Mexico are finding that the drop in the value of the peso, from 23 to the dollar in 1980 to about 190 today, has more than offset inflationary price rises. A room in the El Mirador Acapulco that went for $38 last year now costs just $16. The Mexico City subway fare is only one-half a U.S. penny, and 65? pays for a movie ticket. But swank shops in Mexico City's so-called Pink Zone can fool the unwary. For his $50 the tourist may get only imitation Gucci shoes, but real...
...selection, women workers in day care centers began asking every parent to register and vote. In Alabama, Mondale campaign headquarters logged within hours 65 calls from women volunteers. But how widespread will this phenomenon be, how long will it last and to what ex- tent might it be offset by a backlash among men and more traditionalist women...
...biggest ever sustained by a newspaper. To meet circulation targets, and to ensure advertisers of a stable, identifiable readership, USA Today is shifting from selling primarily at newsstands and through its ubiquitous coin-operated boxes to much more expensive home and office delivery. The costs will be somewhat offset by a planned increase in the per copy price...
...country that do not meet national air-quality standards, federal law requires an elaborate permit procedure for the construction of new or modified industrial facilities. In 1981, however, the Environmental Protection Agency ruled that the permit requirements do not apply if increased pollution from an addition is offset by a pollution reduction elsewhere in the plant. By a 6-to-O vote, the court found that there is nothing in the law to bar this so-called bubble approach. In language that should strengthen the authority of agencies to interpret the statutes they administer, Justice Stevens wrote, "Federal judges...
...paying jobs in private industry. In West Germany, on the other hand, 40,000 teachers are unemployed, many of them qualified in math and science. This imbalance gave University of Georgia History Professor and German Emigre Lothar Tresp an idea. Why not use one country's surplus to offset the other's shortage? Earlier this year Tresp made contact with Georg-Berndt Oschatz, education minister in Lower Saxony. Oschatz had already begun to make inquiries about job possibilities in the U.S. for the 6,000 unemployed teachers in his state...