Word: offsets
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...expert on family incomes. The way Levy sees it, politicians are rushing to the aid of a vanishing middle class that isn't really vanishing. While there has been a big drop in the number of families making $20,000 to $40,000 a year, it has been offset by a sizable increase in the number of families making...
...expressed hope for cyberspace is that any tendency toward fragmentation into contending groups will be offset by a capacity for edifying deliberation. And decorous dialogue has indeed been seen there. But cyberspace is also notorious for bursts of hostility that face-to-face contact would have suppressed. And a perusal of the Internet's newsgroups suggests that any tendencies toward convergence will have some real gaps to bridge. There's alt.politics.greens, alt.politics.libertarian, alt.politics.radical-left, alt.fan.dan-quayle, alt.politics.nationalism.white, alt.fan.g-gordon-liddy, alt.rush-limbaugh.die.a .flaming.death. In a nation that has trouble fixing its attention on the public good and is facing...
...Judging by the lines at return desks last week, this is not a good year. "Returns will be a big deal for the first quarter," says Buyer, who points out that most of the big software companies have set aside twice as much cash as they usually do to offset returns...
Stocked with Irish and German Catholics when it first opened in 1912, the middle-class parish on the city's northern edge is increasingly filled with Asians, African Americans and Hispanics. That influx has not been enough to offset the impact of smaller families and the exodus of many parishioners fleeing rising crime. Since Mass attendance peaked in 1975 at about 2,700, it has steadily declined 5% a year. Kenneally decided to start the gym Mass just months after he arrived at the parish in 1984 as a way to lure back Catholics who considered the traditional Mass...
...avoid deepening the deficit, Clinton plans to offset the $60 billion in tax breaks with spending cuts worth $76 billion over the next five years. Most of the money -- $52 billion -- comes from simply extending the current law that freezes discretionary spending at current levels. Clinton was less specific about the rest of the cuts. This week Vice President Al Gore is expected to detail plans to save $24 billion by shrinking three Cabinet-level departments -- Energy, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development -- and all but eliminating the General Services Administration. With the Republicans in control of Congress, Clinton...