Word: offsets
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...liberalization of Europe's telecom markets in the late '90s that forced Telenor abroad, in search of growth to offset stiffening domestic competition. But squared up against the region's big boys - Telefónica, say, or Deutsche Telekom - Telenor was too small to make much headway in established European markets. It "never had the firepower to go for scale in Europe along the lines pursued by others," says Martin Mabbutt, telecoms analyst at financial services group Nomura in London...
Sandor advocated an emissions trading program similar to the one he'd put forward for acid rain, and his thoughts helped shape the Kyoto Protocol, which requires developed nations to reduce their emissions and created a carbon trading and offset market to speed that process along. In the late 1990s he began formulating the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), a private emissions trading market, to take advantage of the changes he assumed would be coming when the U.S. ratified Kyoto. Of course, that never happened, but Sandor still launched...
...issue at bay. McCain can discuss pop culture as fluidly and astutely as any politician. (He also benefits from terrific genes: note his lively 96-year-old mother Roberta.) Obama, for his part, has projected gravitas and judgment--and has rallied a flood of young voters who could offset those still wary of the new whippersnapper...
...Elyse Dolbec said. “It was really great to see him step up and do well.”The Crimson’s A-division pair of senior skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Elyse Dolbec sailed to a third-place finish, but a few poor finishes offset the team’s five race victories.“Our boat specifically had some races that were disappointing,” Dolbec said. “We had a lot of unforced errors and double-digit finishes which prevented us from winning the division...
...chief issue, states say, is the estimated $4 billion cost of the law over the next 10 years, which comes at a time when state budgets are already stressed to the breaking point. So far, the feds have provided only $380 million in grants to offset those costs. "How dare they not pay for it?" Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell told TIME. "The cost is 12 days of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan...