Word: offseting
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...offset a general election swing to Labor, following the national swing in municipal elections, British Conservatives count heavily...
...aviation's big names was Bert Acosta. Famed as a ''natural" among pilots, he probably had a greater talent for flying than any man before or since. But like many another early barnstormer and stunter, he took to the fleshpots on earth as an offset to his work in the air. His life, consequently, became a rowdy romance in which brawls, jails and domestic entanglements were due to play a large part...
...anxious or willing to face. Nevertheless, it would be absurd to claim that there have not been in the past and will not be in the future, many, who having choose the field of Fine Arts for a career, did not find values which not only offset but compensated for the disadvantages I have enumerated
Here he was in luck. He soon discovered that of Manny Rosenbaum's 4,000,000 bu. of grain contracts, the commitments on the long side were more than offset by contracts on the short side. Liquidation would not dump quantities of grain on the market at once. By agreement with the banks, who had most of Manny Rosenbaum's spot grain as collateral, the Board of Trade Clearing House selected a group of independent brokers (whose names were kept secret) to close out the Rosenbaum open contracts privately. Within a half hour after the market opened. President...
Certainly he had, replied Mr. Mellon. It would have been "stupid" to do otherwise. But only conscience and patriotism had made him pay any tax at all. "I could have, at the time," countered he, "selected enough losses to offset any or all taxes that might have been due. But I felt I still had an income and ought to pay a substantial tax. So I sold Pittsburgh Coal largely to adjust the figure and reach an amount that would be in my mind a justifiable and fair...