Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious reason why businesses succumb when the economy suddenly, and unexpectedly, jumps up is that firms get caught off guard or are unable to adjust to the changed circumstances. During business booms, companies often are unable to raise prices fast enough to offset increased costs. The result is a crippling cash squeeze that can drive a firm into insolvency. Another way of saying it all, of course, is one of the eternal and lasting verities of the capitalist system: risk-taking involves risks...
...Reagan Administration prefers to concentrate on stimulating production [Sept. 28], who's going to buy the products? Mr. and Mrs. Average American will discover their newly won tax breaks are more than offset by other tax increases, rising rents, larger utility bills and higher food costs...
...foul-up had its beginnings in mid-August. In the Budget Reconciliation Act, Congress charged the USDA with proposing changes in the school lunch regulations that would have reduced the cost of producing meals and partially offset the cuts in federal subsidies. A USDA task force had already been set up to address the question of "meal patterns," bureaucratese for guidelines that determine the permissible size and nutritional quality of lunches. In three weeks, the new USDA meal proposals were rushed through the agency, hastily given the green light by Stockman's Office of Management and Budget, and made...
Unlike the McDonald's attorneys, the lawyers for the plaintiff were cautious and businesslike, possibly a strategy designed to offset the flamboyant brashness of their French-Moroccan client. A loud but affable man, Dayan is known around his attorney's rather sterile law offices for his booming voice and harmless flirtations with secretaries. At heart, he considers himself a Frenchman...
...payoff from those stunning interest rates, though, is often only an inflationary illusion. Over the past two centuries, the real interest rate in the U.S. has been fairly consistent at about 3%. Anything more than that has just offset the current level of inflation. A return of 17% from a money-market fund is obviously better than 5.25% from a bank, but if the inflation rate is also 17%, the depositor is not really that far ahead. With inflation now at about 11%, a yield of 17% is clearly a good deal...