Word: offsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ivory Coast the weak spot was falling world prices for cocoa, its chief export. The government unveiled plans in mid-February for sweeping income tax increases to offset the public-sector deficit, sparking two months of often violent strikes and street demonstrations. Little used to overt dissent, the government responded with force. Police and soldiers broke up protests using truncheons, tear gas and occasionally live ammunition. One schoolboy was shot dead...
...opposition faces an uphill sprint. The Communists, who have ruled for 69 years, enjoy access to state money, media and organizational apparatus. To offset those advantages, six opposition parties and groups have agreed to field common candidates in the elections. Even if Mongolia's first democratic exercise is fair, local and foreign observers in Ulan Bator predict that the Communists will win by a comfortable margin. Still, it would seem that the days of absolute rule are over...
...Edinburg, Texas, packer of C rations, which relies on the Pentagon for 95% of its revenues. Barth, whose staff of 700 employees assembles 3.1 million cases of dehydrated field rations a year, says he is banking on projections that the sharp reductions in active-duty personnel will be offset by stepped-up reserve training. If so, Right Away's foods would still be needed...
...install a new compressor in her refrigerator. He asked her to open the window, and then she heard the whooshing sound of CFCs venting into the atmosphere. Draper raised such a fuss with the Environmental Protection Agency, the newspapers and local and state officials that GE agreed to offset the CFC discharges in its compressor- replacement program by recapturing an equal amount elsewhere in its operations. Draper has since stalked the halls of Congress urging more controls on CFCs and has become one of Maryland's environmental watchdogs, taking everything from reforestation to recycling before the general assembly...
...investments from West Germany will fund most of East Germany's makeover, but the Bonn government will bear the huge costs of swapping the East's nonconvertible currency for deutsche marks and establishing social benefits, like unemployment insurance, in the East. But Pieroth insists that those expenditures will be offset by an additional one to two percentage points of economic growth he reckons will be created in West Germany by new business opportunities in the East...