Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House, meanwhile, has announced that it will try to offset a $50 billion tobacco tax break that Congress slipped into the Federal budget ? by adding another $50 billion on the tobacco settlement. Clinton has also threatened more action against the industry if teen smoking target aren't reached. Not that Big Tobacco is worried ? after all, their customers seem willing to put up with anything...
...cannot buy seats in Congress. The right of a candidate to spend his own money is constitutionally protected. However, this gives wealthy candidates a tremendous advantage. The answer, to avoid injury to the Constitution, is not to limit the amount someone can spend on his own campaign but to offset it. If a candidate provides 15% or more of his campaign war chest, the opponent's party should be allowed to match that amount through a soft-money contribution...
...real stars, of course, are Jones and Smith, who split the one-liners pretty evenly between them. Jones's deadpan is nicely offset by Smith's comical reaction to (and commentary on) every new experience. But this, too, gets old: their immunity to surprise gets to us. There's absolutely zero tenstion at any point, and the movie's non-stop flippancy brings it perilously clsoe to triviality...
...whatever good comes from sobering up the parties is likely to be offset by returning to the bad old days of difficult divorce. An effort to repeal no-fault divorce failed in Iowa and Michigan when people realized it would be a boon to lawyers without necessarily saving marriages or protecting women from Donald Trumps trading in old models for newer ones. How many cooing couples who select covenant marriage realize that should their union turn into an icy hell, they have signed on to a financially draining, emotionally exhausting divorce process in which they must find grievous fault...
Women who stayed on estrogen for more than 10 years, however, derived a more modest benefit. Reason? Their risk of dying from breast cancer shot up 43%, enough to offset the positive effects of estrogen, Grodstein says, but not enough to eliminate them entirely. Despite the rise in breast-cancer deaths, the researchers found that long-term estrogen users still had a 20% lower death rate. Over the coming years, Grodstein and her colleagues hope to find out what happens when women use estrogen for even longer periods. Does their breast-cancer risk continue to rise, or does it level...