Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were monumentally successful, can well afford the gamble with cereal. A $53 billion packaged-goods powerhouse, Philip Morris is larger than Kellogg ($7 billion) and General Mills ($8.3 billion) combined. Cereal accounts for a mere 2.2% of sales and about 2.1% of operating profits, so the company can easily offset any losses elsewhere. For instance, it jacked up its cigarette prices 4' a pack earlier this month, a move expected to recapture some of the revenue losses from Post cereals. Just last week Philip Morris said its first-quarter profit rose 14.8%, to $1.6 billion, on revenues of $17.5 billion...
These shortcomings have offset an impressive offense that has tallied a league-high 118 goals and features the league's leading scorer in sophomore John Ward...
...Harvard co-captain fired a 38 on both the front and back nines in a round highlighted by an eagle from 140 yards away on the par-four seventh hole. However, Radtke missed numerous birdie putts which could have offset his six bogeys...
Thanks to its exquisite sensitivity, however, S.N.O. may be able to settle the question of whether the sun's deficit in electron neutrinos is offset by a previously undetected flood of the other kinds. If this works as expected, it should determine once and for all whether neutrinos oscillate. If they don't, solar physics will have to be revised; if they do, particle physics will be turned on its head. "I'd say our solar models are quite reliable," says Bahcall. "But that's why you do experiments. Because what you think you know might turn...
...losses, good pitching couldn't offset non-existent hitting and defensive troubles. Bakersfield scored two runs in the fourth thanks to a pair of errors, while all of UC-Davis' runs came from a two-out rally in the fourth, negating a strong outing by sophomore pitcher Tasha Cupp...