Word: offsets
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Work programs can benefit inmates and taxpayers alike. Minnesota's Sentencing to Service program has been putting nonviolent offenders to work in communities throughout the state since 1986. So far, it has logged 530,000 man-hours, and when program costs are offset against earnings and reductions in prison costs, the effort comes up $6 million in the black. "In work programs, inmates feel like they're paying back society," says Charles Colson, who established the Prison Fellowship after serving seven highly publicized months in prison. "Work restores their sense of dignity -- and it's useful to society...
...offset of the fault is called the slip. In a medium-sized earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale, the average slip would be about half a meter...
...argues that the arrangement would affect the livelihood of many Japanese and South Korean rice farmers, threaten textile workers in Europe and the U.S., and create problems for factory workers at inefficient plants worldwide. Such losses should, in theory, be offset by new employment in export-related industries, where wages are usually higher than average -- 17% higher in the U.S, for example. An accord should also lower prices for consumers, who ultimately pay the hidden costs of protectionism. A U.S. family of four pays as much as $420 a year more for clothes than necessary, thanks to high U.S. textile...
...empowering individuals, [organizations such as Emily's List and WISH List] can offset all the money which is pouring into men's campaigns," said Malcolm...
...project is a big risk for CBS, which is paying more than $5 million for two showings despite Broadway's ordinarily limited appeal on screen, and for the producers. To help offset the $14 million cost, Gypsy will be released as a feature film internationally and perhaps in the U.S. A soundtrack is already on sale. Says Robert Halmi Sr., an executive producer: "When Bette decided she wanted to do it, that's when this project came to life...