Word: offsets
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...France and Germany into economic reform. To many observers, he seemed to lose interest in the E.U. as the prospects for a return on his investment faded. In June, Blair said he'd consider giving up the British rebate, secured in 1984 by then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to offset her country's scanty proceeds from the E.U.'s Common Agricultural Policy (cap), but only if "the larger anomaly" of big agricultural subsidies was changed, too. The French, the biggest beneficiaries and fiercest defenders of the cap, have insisted they're not open to further discussion on reducing subsidies...
...animals as diverse as the monkey, tiger, and snake. Animals of the fantasy world include the dragon and phoenix. In “Dragon amid Clouds,” a hanging scroll from the Choson dynasty of Korea in the nineteenth century, an orange and green dragon is offset by black and white clouds. The dragon, a celebrated animal in East Asia, is chasing a wish-granting Buddhist symbol in this scroll. “Dragons in the West are considered evil, whereas in Asia they are thought of as benevolent and even auspicious,” says Mowry. These...
...precedent. That didn’t affect the status of the refugees, who had already been admitted to the U.S.—but it did mean the ruling wouldn’t be binding for similar cases in the future. In exchange, the Justice Department offered to offset part of the university’s legal fees. As a former presidential adviser told Goldstein, the administration wanted “maximum flexibility” on Guantánamo, “confident that they would do the right thing but not wanting to be forced by law to have...
...release optional to shore up its reputation with employers and ensure that students give the school’s academics more than lip-service. Students should be able to keep, and to advertise, what they earn. The dire consequences predicted by those who oppose the move will ultimately be offset by the fundamentals of HBS’s grading policy itself. After Jan. 18, when HBS has said it will make a decision, we hope to see a revitalized business school that sports a better balance between collegiality and academic rigor...
...Facts: A summer internship puts the theory-minded Harvard student in the real world. Won’t the personal satisfaction involved in working for the Hague offset having to pass up on traveling in Italy? Also, if you’re doing it in Russia, Central Asia, or Eastern Europe, you can work through the more sexily named Andrei Sakharov Internship through the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies...