It may be that the effects of smoking are counter-balanced by a healthy diet.

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Usually, such economies of scale are counter-balanced, at some point, by diseconomies of scale.

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But the start-ups remain counter-balanced by less business oriented parts of the festival.

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But others have noted that his legacy of public service was counter-balanced by heavy drinking in his early years - and the death of a female companion, Mary Jo Kopechne, in 1969 when he drove off a bridge at Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts and fled the scene.

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