Word: offsets
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...desperate when you strip out volatile fuel prices. The core consumer rate has risen just 2% the past 12 months, even though overall consumer prices have jumped a more troublesome 4.7% in that period. The big fear is that the core rate will lift as companies raise prices to offset the higher prices they pay for energy. "Inevitably, we'll get some pass-through," says James O'Sullivan, economist at the brokerage UBS. Indeed, Clorox, Marriott, Carnival, Deere and FedEx have already raised or said they would raise prices because of the high cost of fuel...
...place. Maintenance costs will likely inflate what is already an exorbitant price tag: although a decade ago the cost of the center was projected to be $30 million, the final bill is approximately $100 million.If the terracotta is an effort to make CGIS blend into Cambridge, it is, however, offset by the designer’s ultimate decision to divide the center into two identical, disconnected buildings, each facing the other from opposite sides of the street. The exact duplication of the buildings and their direct alignment gives the impression that this center is forming its own little, self-involved...
...busy weekend began Saturday with the Danmark Trophy regatta in New London, Conn., where the team sailed four morning and eight afternoon races. Juniors skipper Clay Johnson and crew Kristen Lynch won the B-division, a performance which helped offset a slow first day for the rest of the team. The Crimson finished the first day in seventh place, but bounced back on Sunday morning thanks in part to one of four second-place finishes from Johnson and Lynch...
...ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will continue quarreling about how to pay for Katrina. The conservative Republican Study Committee published a 23-page "Operation Offset" proposing such drastic measures as delaying the Medicare prescription drug program for one year. The White House points to cuts Congress didn't make that Bush proposed back in February, including eliminating or streamlining 150 non-security programs like exchanges with historic whaling and trading partners, which was restored at the behest of the Senate. A House leadership aide said the plan is to make spending cuts down the road, but probably not to do anything...
...Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the prematurely white-haired leader of the House conservative caucus, set the stage for a tense week for the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue when he declared Sunday on ABC?s ?This Week? that to offset the cost of Katrina relief, ?We've got to talk about big ticket items.? He said the nation ?simply cannot break the bank of the federal budget that is currently running about an $8 trillion national debt, about $26,000 per family.? While House Republican leaders do not necessarily disagree with Pence, they have been publicly supportive of the White...