Word: offsets
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...pipe that runs along the ocean bottom to shore. The oil will be stored in tanks within the pyramids and periodically emptied by ships. The project is expected to yield 50 bbl. of oil and 600,000 cu. ft. of gas a day, which will not be enough to offset the $8 million investment made by ARCO and its partners, Mobil and Aminoil USA, Inc. The capping operation, however, will produce other benefits...
...modern history narrated by CBS Evening News Commentator Bill Moyers. More than 60% of the shows were produced by CBS, at costs ranging from $25,000 to a hefty $325,000 an hour. Meanwhile, despite a potential audience that CBS market researchers estimated at 5 million households, advertising revenues offset no more than $60,000 an hour of costs, and often less. Said Analyst Joseph Fuchs of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Inc.: "CBS designed a solid-gold Cadillac when what might have worked was a Chevrolet...
...defense spending increases, to the dismay of some in his own Administration. In an inter view with the Associated Press that was released as his resignation be came effective last week, Murray Weidenbaum, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, charged that increases in military spending have fully offset all Reagan's cuts in civilian programs. Said Weidenbaum: "On balance, we really haven't cut the budget. When you add that [defense spending] to the big tax cuts, you get such horrendous deficits." While the Administration considers higher defense outlays to be sacred, Democrats controlling the House...
Most magazines today are sold in three ways: on newsstands, by subscriptions ordered directly from the publications, and by subscriptions brokered tions, and by subscriptions brokered through agencies. Direct subscriptions provide enough income per buyer to help offset printing and distribution costs. By comparison, agencies siphon off so much of the subscriber's payment that the magazine loses money on each copy. But the increase in readership is supposed to enable publishers to recoup through higher advertising rates. Saturday Review got the bulk of its readers through agencies, said a former editor, "because we wanted to K8 get consumer...
...Dershowitz observes are often out to better statistics and to plea-bargain away their clients' cases for illusory victories. Others don't care at all about their clients, just their fees. Judges, many of whom are former prosecutors, often side with the state. And those lawyers skilled enough to offset those systemic biases are often too concerned about their reputations to defend a crook who's been villified by the press...