Word: offseting
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...controls failed; the cutbacks on luxuries were offset by increases in essentials. The bank fell behind in supplying dollars. Exporters abroad, fearful of losing a fine long-range market, shrugged at their uncollected bills and continued to ship. Colombia's gold and foreign-exchange reserves began to fall...
...noted that while a good dictating machine required a capital investment of approximately $700, the initial expense would be offset in the long run by the smaller number of stenographers used...
...votes, and the remaining 121 counties two votes. Designed to prevent city voters from overpowering the farmer, the system achieves an opposite effect: the farmers overpower the cities. Example: the total of 1,996 voters registered in Chattahoochee, Quitman and Echols Counties, at two unit votes per county, can offset 125,000 in six-vote Fulton County (Atlanta). Since candidates can win by carrying 103 small counties, the wisest ignore the cities, woo the rural voters...
...tune of an old folk song that sometimes begins, "Hush, li'l baby, don' say a word, mamma's gonna buy you a mockin'-bird ..." A piece from Piece: Take off the goat-horns, Dodgers, that egret/which two very fine base-stealers can offset./ You've got plenty: Jackie Robinson/and Campy and big Newk, and Dodgerdom again/watching everything you do. You won last year. Come...
TRUCK RATES are going up, possibly as much as 15%, to offset heavier taxes, increased costs. According to ICC figures, profits of 900 truck lines slipped 50% in 1956's first quarter...