Word: offsets
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...Megan Merritt will also spark improvement for the team after an impressive sophomore campaign. Both will hope they can focus the team’s effort on the main tangible weakness of 2005—scoring goals. The Crimson was last in the Ivies with only 14 goals scored, offset by an Ivy-best eight goals against. Without Shields, who was a consistent and reliable force for the Crimson last season, the need for more offense will become more apparent. “I think we’re definitely going to focus on our offense and attack...
...country and recently put out a list of initiatives Democrats would pursue were they to seize control: raising the minimum wage, cutting student loan interest rates, reducing government subsidies to oil companies and instituting so-called pay-as-you go budget principles, meaning every increase in spending would be offset by either a tax increase or a cut in some other spending program. And Democrats will put out a plan calling for increased spending on education and other domestic policy changes later this month. "If you look at the polling in the last few years, it points in the same...
Enron's greatest failure may have been asserting that it could offset major risks by buying assets like utilities and then developing and trading complex financial instruments around them. The company's energy-trading imitators paid a dear price: the Williams Co., based in Oklahoma, and Dynegy, based in Texas, saw their stock prices drop from the $45 range to less than $1 before rebounding slightly...
...rural development manager hired to come up with an economic strategy for Assynt's land, believes this can change. He has asked the Scottish Crop Research Institute to find a crop to be farmed for biodiesel, and is enticing big companies to sponsor the planting of woodlands to offset carbon emissions. A marina is being built. Alastair MacAskill, the local butcher and chairman of the Assynt Foundation [EM] the residents' association that now owns the land [EM] knows this is only the start. "We thought Vestey would be there forever. It just shows how fragile the connection of land...
...depressed spot prices. But don't expect a break in the price of cornflakes. The corn in a 1-lb. box costs cereal makers just 3¢, a tiny part of the total cost, according to Robert Wiser, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University. Higher energy costs more than offset any cuts in the price of corn...