Word: offsets
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What it finally boils down to is a matter of statistical logic and insurer psychology. If a few giant jury awards, actual or merely possible, can offset the premiums on an entire line of insurance, the companies feel they must raise premiums for everybody until there is some hope of making a profit. This means that premiums may bear no relationship to an individual policyholder's record, and buyers of many kinds of insurance are suddenly paying three or four times as much as they did a year or so earlier. Of all places, Hartford, Conn., known as the insurance...
...interest rates in 1980 to conquer inflation, has reason to remain vigilant. One threat that could fuel new inflation is the falling value of the dollar, which pushes up the prices of America's imports. German automakers, for example, are increasing their prices by as much as 6% to offset the dollar's decline...
...portion of the University’s income is supplied by student tuition. At the College, annual tuition and fees will increase 4.5 percent next year, exceeding $40,000 for the first time in its history. The overall cost of $41,567 will be offset by a 5.8 percent rise in total scholarship dollars...
...graduating seniors can elect to refund their remaining Crimson Cash balance, while leftover BoardPlus gets rolled back into HUDS’s coffers in order to offset the next year’s costs...
...Arroyo has seen her popularity plummet since being elected President last May, largely because of unpopular economic moves like new taxes intended to combat the Philippines' budget deficit and a hike in electricity and petrol prices to offset rising oil costs, which have prompted numerous street protests. "These protests and bishops worry me no end," says Jose Ma. Rufino, national executive director of Arroyo's Lakas Party. "It's a new phenomenon." Unfortunately, coup tremors in the Philippines are anything...