Word: offsets
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...State have billion dollar budget deficits. And it's not just New York that's in trouble. Virtually every state and city is facing budget gaps that they will have to raise taxes or cut services (or both) to cover. For many Americans, the federal tax cut will be offset by state and local governments raising rates to cover deficits and pay for growing costs like standardized testing of school kids and Homeland Security measures that the feds mandate but aren't funding...
...different strategy. Infineon is determined to maintain a range of products from the highly cyclical drams - a computer chip that acts as a temporary storage depot for data while the computer performs a task - to "logic" chips used in devices such as mobile phones. Meanwhile, Schumacher hopes to offset the downturn in the dram cycle by being strong in logic chips, which are less prone to business swings. Currently, around 39% of Infineon's sales come from drams, 24% from the automotive industry, 34% from products for the communications industry and 3% from other areas. So far, Schumacher's strategy...
According to Director of UHS David S. Rosenthal ’59, the increases will help fund the year-old student prescription medication plan, pay for recent hires of mental health clinicians and offset the general rise in health care costs...
...best-run companies in the hemisphere, yet each side protests that the other doesn't play fair because it relies on taxpayer subsidies. Embraer says it needs government help to counter Bombardier's easier access to First World financing and technology; Bombardier says it has to have aid to offset Embraer's low Third World labor costs and cheap currency. The firms have put their World Trade Organization complaints on hold and will sit down this month to try to work out a settlement. As irritating as they are, the subsidies, which mostly take the form of government loans...
...Chinatown for decades. Similar accommodations are made regularly: East Boston has a ‘mitigation fund’ for the developmental and environmental harms that Logan Airport causes on a daily basis, and James M. Kelly, the City Councilor for South Boston effectively lobbied for mitigation funds to offset the hassles caused by the recent construction of the new convention center located in his district. It is a shame that Kelly has not moved to secure similar funding for Chinatown, also in his district...