Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part of its Occupational Arts department, my high school boasted a full scale graphics shop complete with darkroom, light tables and several offset presses. Since everyone in the school had to take three vocational education classes, it was a rare Garfield High student who didn't graduate with boxes of business cards and badly screened tri-color T-shirts. It was here that the newspaper was produced, leaving us at the mercy of machines that had been purchased sometime around the Eisenhower administration. The first...
Subsidize the health-care premiums of small businesses that employ low- income workers. While big companies that save on health insurance are expected to create new jobs, internal White House studies predict that those gains would be more than offset by jobs lost among low-wage workers at small businesses. Many of these businesses do not now pay anything to insure their workers, and would be required to pay at least 3.5% of payroll under the Clinton plan -- a payment some could finance only by shedding workers. President Clinton recently approved new transitional subsidies for businesses with fewer than...
...else paying a greater portion of the bill. Many corporate plans seek to steer patients to physicians who join a health-maintenance organization (HMO) or so- called preferred-provider organization (PPO) by cutting reimbursements to employees who insist on consulting "outside" doctors. But this is supposed to be offset by other benefits: fewer and simpler (or maybe no) maddening reimbursement-claim forms to fill out, to cite one. To the uninsured, the reforms provide a chance to buy policies now unavailable. Many states, for example, are sharply restricting the ability of insurance companies to turn down applicants because...
This good news was somewhat offset by a report that the country's index of leading economic indicators rose a disappointing one-tenth of 1% in April, suggesting that no boom is in the offing. The 11 indicators, which include data on consumer expectations and plant and equipment orders, had dropped dramatically the month before...
...blind eye to his chief of staff flying military jets to private appointments, and closing the waters off Kennebunkport, Maine, while he pounded through the surf in his cigarette boat. Ronald Reagan could pull off the common touches as only a B-movie actor could, but his wife offset those by ordering a set of hand-painted china inscribed NANCY and a closetful of unpaid-for designer creations. Nixon dressed up the White House guards like something out of a Sigmund Romberg operetta...