Word: offsets
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Gore's plan would spend $36 billion on income tax credits to offset costs of college tuition. A family could receive as much as $2,800 in tax credits each year. Gore would also allow families to sock away up to $2,500 a year in new tax-advantaged accounts, similar to 401(k)s, which they could tap at any age for higher education or job training. And Gore would spend $2 billion nationalizing a program, already in place in some states, that gives parents tax breaks to save for their kids' college tuition...
...buybacks are increasingly concocted to offset the potential dilution of mega-stock-option grants, which exploded in number in the '90s. The strategy is especially prevalent among tech companies, including Dell, Adobe and Autodesk. But others, including Citigroup and Chiron, do it too. The idea is to buy back enough stock so that when executives and employees exercise options, the company can deliver the stock without printing more...
...Gore's plan would spend $36 billion on income tax credits to offset costs of college tuition. A family could receive as much as $2,800 in tax credits each year. Gore would also allow families to sock away up to $2,500 a year in new tax-advantaged accounts, similar to 401(k)s, which they could tap at any age for higher education or job training. And Gore would spend $2 billion nationalizing a program, already in place in some states, that gives parents tax breaks to save for their kids' college tuition...
OHIO Gore needs Cleveland's blue-collar families to offset rural conservatives in the Southwest who favor the G.O.P. But so far, Bush has an impressive 9-point lead statewide...
...officials were enthusiastic about the sale, hoping the funds from Harvard will offset deficits from Boston's Central Artery project--known as the "Big Dig"--which has had massive cost overruns...