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Nohrenberg said the recession has definitely influenced the Advocate's business affairs. "We're trying to be a little more aggressive about selling ads, and we've increased building rentals to offset costs," he said...
...they remain more trusted than Labour to curb 9.4% unemployment, high interest rates and the spate of business bankruptcies and closures. Ultimately, Labour's attempts to convince voters that it had shed its socialist spots failed. The party's renunciation of its old high-taxing, free-spending habits were offset by promises to shore up education, health care and other domestic programs, which Britain's largest accounting firm calculated would add $47 billion to the national budget...
...evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her four stepdaughters without suffocating the reader in their chronic gloom. While the backdrop is one of complaint, cryptic exchanges -- "That again? Are we rehashing that again?" -- are enough to remind us of the women's litany. Their oppressive unhappiness is artfully offset by the vitality of the three youngest Townes, who, like flowers that bloom in urban sidewalk cracks, fight for life...
Last February, President Bush forwarded a health care plan intended to aid the 36 million Americans who are uninsured. The plan, now incorporated into his campaign platform, centers on providing tax credits to offset health care costs...
...Iacocca's job. While Eaton was not the architect of GM's European turnaround, he maintained the momentum of that business after becoming president in 1988. Last year he helped make GM-Europe the most profitable car firm on the Continent, offering its $1.96 billion in earnings as an offset to GM's staggering $8.7 billion loss in North America. "Bob was a very high-energy, direct and pragmatic manager," notes John Smith, vice-president for planning at GM-Europe. "He was engaging, and he loved cars. It was a personality combination that worked...