Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they remain more trusted than Labour to curb 9.4% unemployment, high interest rates and the spate of business bankruptcies and closures. Ultimately, Labour's attempts to convince voters that it had shed its socialist spots failed. The party's renunciation of its old high-taxing, free-spending habits were offset by promises to shore up education, health care and other domestic programs, which Britain's largest accounting firm calculated would add $47 billion to the national budget...
Last February, President Bush forwarded a health care plan intended to aid the 36 million Americans who are uninsured. The plan, now incorporated into his campaign platform, centers on providing tax credits to offset health care costs...
...Iacocca's job. While Eaton was not the architect of GM's European turnaround, he maintained the momentum of that business after becoming president in 1988. Last year he helped make GM-Europe the most profitable car firm on the Continent, offering its $1.96 billion in earnings as an offset to GM's staggering $8.7 billion loss in North America. "Bob was a very high-energy, direct and pragmatic manager," notes John Smith, vice-president for planning at GM-Europe. "He was engaging, and he loved cars. It was a personality combination that worked...
Though Japan has been buying less from the world market over the past year, imports from the U.S. remain firm. And there is no evidence that Tokyo intends to unload goods on the American market as a way to offset slumping sales at home. The Big Three, for example, are relieved to see that Japanese automakers plan to raise prices on cars sold in the U.S. in order to boost profits...
...another. Then, when he needed them, they were there. Clinton's just come to town, and the organizations have a lot of local contests they consider more important than the presidency. They're ( for Clinton on paper, but the question is whether they'll work hard enough to offset a surge by someone else...