Word: offsets
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...race to deliver supplies to areas now inaccessible by land. But there's a strategic aim too: from the Commander in Chief to the service members on the ground, Americans are hopeful that the scenes of sailors distributing water and food from the backs of helicopters will offset the more familiar images of soldiers breaking down doors in Baghdad. Most of all, the military wants to soften hearts and minds in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the tsunami and the world's largest Muslim nation. "This is a great opportunity to show everyone that the military isn't only...
...networks to carry data-intensive video. In the past few years, however, pay TV has become more alluring. According to Media Partners Asia, the industry in Asia is expected to grow by more than 14% this year to $15.5 billion. That's new business phone companies desperately need to offset declines in local and long-distance call revenues, which are under attack from competitors such as Internet-based telephony providers. Some of the fiercest rivals in this new field are cable firms like I Cable, which last week began offering a broadband-and-telephony package for a ridiculously cheap...
...most candidates who enjoy negligible national name recognition, the need to get out and campaign may be offset by their survival instinct. But the circumstances in which the election will be held may be less of a problem for the Shiite UIA list than for most others. It has the advantage of clerical backing and association with Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the supreme spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiite majority, who has declared it a religious duty to go to the polls (an act that for many Iraqis will require considerable physical courage). The list's grounding in the most popular...
...auto business. Detroit has traditionally viewed small cars as money losers, the province of low-cost Japanese and Korean brands; retirees and budget shoppers are considered the core customers, not the most desirable clientele. Sure, you need an economy car for first-time buyers, and small cars offset the lousy mileage of SUVs and pickups, enabling automakers to meet federal regulations for corporate average fuel economy--which, thanks to industry lobbying, have barely budged in more than a decade. Given a choice, however, most Americans opt for luggage space, leg room, horsepower and the perceived safety of large vehicles--making...
...that the fate of the economy sits largely in the hands of its creditors, especially when all parties are playing an international blame game. Europeans want the U.S. to cut the deficit; the U.S. wants Europe to stop whining and stimulate its economy, which would generate domestic demand and offset business lost to the U.S. and China because the weak dollar has made European goods so much more expensive. Both European and U.S. officials want China to revalue its yuan. With a hot economy and trade surplus, the Chinese, many Westerners believe, can handle a stronger currency, and there...