Word: offsets
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KERRY He tries to take on health-care costs and offshore outsourcing in a single bound. In industries affected by outsourcing, Kerry would give companies a tax credit to offset the cost of worker benefits, making it cheaper to hire them...
BUSH In response to criticism of the mushrooming budget deficit, Bush's chief economic adviser, Gregory Mankiw, acknowledges that the tax cuts, along with spending on homeland security, have dug a hole. "The deficit is unwelcome but understandable," he says. Mankiw says that further tax breaks will be offset by cuts in spending. He vows that this fiscal discipline and economic growth will halve the deficit in five years...
...dedicated three national channels to the Olympics, and the country's state media dispatched 160 reporters to Athens. Cui Ying of the Shanghai Morning Post, a daily with a circulation of 600,000, estimated that her paper will spend about $120,000 covering the Games. Still, hefty advertising has offset such costs; China's state-run CCTV, for instance, says it is raking in $60 million in ad revenues?a remarkable feat in a country where advertising is still an infant industry. Everything about the Olympics has been marketed, right down to sponsorship of the televised medal count that flashed...
...investment increases, NHS doctors are adopting the more patient-centered approach of her home country; France, she says, can learn to reduce costs by empowering nurses and requiring more general-practitioner referrals before patients see specialists. Practical measures like that will help, but they won't be enough to offset all the spiraling costs. Governments may yet need a stronger prescription...
...site is currently running some advertisements, but Zuckerberg says they are only being used to offset server costs. Nonetheless, the facebook’s business manager has posted notices soliciting ads on multiple websites, and a thefacebook.com rate card shows that the site is interested in attracting national advertisers. Ads for AT&T Wireless, America Online and Monster.com have been displayed, along with promotions for Harvard organizations such as the Seneca Club’s Red Party, the Harvard Bartending Course and the Mather Lather dance...