Word: offsets
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Indeed, for all Toyota's strengths, the company needs a truck hit in the U.S. to offset weaker prospects in other areas. While Toyota is expanding rapidly in Europe and China, those sales tend to be concentrated in the compact-car segment, in which profit margins are low. In Japan, where Toyota intends to launch its Lexus brand in August, the company may have a hard time expanding market share, already at 44%. The dollar's slump against the yen, meanwhile, makes Japanese exports more expensive...
...fast as in many other places in the world. That may sound odd, but the simple expansion of water as it warms is complicated by local wind and current patterns. Beyond that, changes in the height of land masses as soils compact or tectonic plates slip and slide can offset--or magnify--sea-level changes...
...default because the lenders hope that payments will eventually resume. "A default becomes a real mess," says one New York banker. Since the debts of Bolivia, Nicaragua and Peru are relatively small and spread out among many lenders, the banks' losses on these loans have been easily offset by healthy profits in other lines of business. Bank earnings will suffer, however, if either Brazil or Argentina falls more than a few months behind in its payments...
Manning the sloop regatta necessitated pulling Harvard’s two most capable skippers from the middle of team racing, but the exigencies of qualifying for the sloop championship offset a substandard overall showing in team racing with mere weeks before New England Team Race Championships...
...typical term of five to 15 years to repay. That simplicity and predictability is valuable. There are hidden costs, however. If you borrow enough to cover four years of tuition, you'll need to reinvest whatever you don't use right away. And even so, you may not offset the interest you're paying for money you don't need...