Word: offsetting
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...install a new compressor in her refrigerator. He asked her to open the window, and then she heard the whooshing sound of CFCs venting into the atmosphere. Draper raised such a fuss with the Environmental Protection Agency, the newspapers and local and state officials that GE agreed to offset the CFC discharges in its compressor- replacement program by recapturing an equal amount elsewhere in its operations. Draper has since stalked the halls of Congress urging more controls on CFCs and has become one of Maryland's environmental watchdogs, taking everything from reforestation to recycling before the general assembly...
...investments from West Germany will fund most of East Germany's makeover, but the Bonn government will bear the huge costs of swapping the East's nonconvertible currency for deutsche marks and establishing social benefits, like unemployment insurance, in the East. But Pieroth insists that those expenditures will be offset by an additional one to two percentage points of economic growth he reckons will be created in West Germany by new business opportunities in the East...
...value is ebbing. The RTC's commitment to sell several hundred billion dollars' worth of real estate hangs over the market, depressing prices and even harming the loan portfolios of the remaining 2,600 S&Ls. And since the Government is counting on proceeds from the property sales to offset some of the costs of the bailout, sluggish disposal of the real estate could help push the total cost of the rescue to more than $300 billion during the next 30 years. "The cost of carrying that stuff is going to kill you and me as taxpayers," says Richard Kneipper...
Some Harvard Law School students are angry with the Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark over a proposed tuition hike, planned to offset the school's $1.2 million deficit...
Alas, all three services are still enamored of ultra-complex, ultra- expensive weapons systems. The argument used to be that only the highest of high-tech weapons could offset the Soviets' heavy superiority in numbers -- no matter how suspect some of that Soviet power might have been. Now that the numerical superiority may be negotiated away, at least in Europe, the services are trying to find new arguments for the dollar devourers...