Word: offsets
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INTELLIGENCE. American satellites can pinpoint every Iraqi deployment and troop movement and pick up electronic signals chatter among enemy units as well. They proved their capability during the Iran-Iraq war, when they supplied Saddam's forces with enough intelligence largely to offset Iran's advantage in numbers. Deprived of this assistance, the Iraqi troops this time will be fighting virtually blind...
...better. Nevertheless, 48% of the works failed to sell. The auction had one very fine De Kooning, July, 1956, which sold for $8.8 million against the estimates of $5 million to $7 million. It might have been a $15 million painting a year ago, but at least its price offset the fact that none of the other De Koonings in the sale -- all later or inferior works -- found buyers. Philip Guston's Summer, 1954, joined the De Kooning as one of the few paintings to exceed its high estimate -- $1.1 million, against estimates...
Last year, the council voluntarily paid for the weekend shuttle after the College stopped funding it altogether. This year, Jewett put the service back into the budget, but then slashed it as part of an effort to offset an unexpected deficit...
...They had a lot of problems with misdirection, which is a large part of our offense," Priore said. "They are an attacking defense. We're going to have to offset their aggressiveness by giving them problems finding the ball...
Michael Jackson Meets Batman (Warner Bros.; Anton Furst) This proposal from the production designer of Batman has a quirky logic to it, teaming music's baddest icon with pop culture's most marketable superhero. If the movie bombs, maybe the sound track could offset the losses...