Word: offsetting
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...Columbus for loans, and itemizing the properties in the church's rich portfolio that he can sell. Topping the list: the Archbishop's elegant residence. But press reports suggest the Boston church has been steadily selling off chunks of its stocks and bonds during the past five years to offset shortfalls in its operating expenses--the same period during which the diocese was making hefty secret payments to abuse victims...
...University does not expect the infrastructure fund to last long enough to offset any building costs, schools will have to cover building construction through a combination of fund-raising and borrowing...
...most cases, however, those proceeds would not entirely offset the more expensive construction of a new building...
...CUTS When President Bush proposed his tax rebate of up to $600 per couple, he billed it as an insurance policy against recession. Critics sniped that no government could possibly hope to time fiscal relief to offset economic stress. Call Bush lucky, but his rebates landed in the only quarter of negative GDP. They softened the downturn and helped pave the way for a buoyant Christmas quarter. Already, though, Bush's tax-cutting agenda is in deep trouble. Just hours after Greenspan hailed the recovery, the House passed a scaled-back economic package that amounts to a Republican retreat...
Harvard took advantage of the 1980 Rink’s Olympic-sized surface, which is fifteen feet wider than a regulation rink. The Crimson utilized its superior speed to offset the bigger Cornell skaters and find holes in the Big Red defense...