Word: offsets
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...factors can influence cardiovascular disease, and many of them are hereditary and, taken by themselves, are beyond a person's control. But the bewildering research has not undermined the essential facts: by far the most important risk factors remain smoking, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. These can be offset by changes in diet and behavior...
...biases I may have were offset by senior editor Jack White, a North Carolinian who got some exposure to the Golden State when he lived in Fresno in the '60s. Jack put this issue together with the expert guidance of executive editor Ron Kriss, who still regrets leaving the home he owned in Sausalito when he lived there as executive editor of Saturday Review in the early 1970s...
...course, nothing can offset the tragedy for Magic or any other person who is affected," he said...
...going to happen with the surplus money that Cambridge has," said Applebaum. The city has a reserve of free cash that it uses to keep its bond rating high and facilitate its cash flow. Some residents have criticized the city manager for not freeing up that money to offset budget cutbacks...
...under control. But these aren't normal times. Right now, fully half of Citicorp's 30 million Visa and MasterCards are dormant. To chairman John Reed, that's worrisome. As the % largest issuer of such cards, Citicorp relies on the profit from those operations (last year: $610 million) to offset disasters like the depression in commercial real estate. As Americans get serious about whittling down their debts, the profit cushion for many bankers is getting uncomfortably thin...