As a result, Brazil has adopted a policy to keep local interest rates high to offset a very lax fiscal stance.
The central bank, which has kept interest rates high to offset lax fiscal policy, is in a policy bind: even higher rates might attract a destabilising amount of speculative capital, while lower rates would fuel domestic demand and imports, pushing the current-account deficit higher.
They command such high salaries, in part, to offset their high cost of living.
High compensation helps offset the risks and seasonal fluctuations that come with the work.
Hong Kong stocks bucked the market trend as earnings from a number of high profile companies offset the gloom from Europe.
Cooks merged last year with MyTravel, and cut 2, 800 jobs as part of huge cost-saving plans to offset high fuel costs and steep competition.
Instead, they perceive that profits come at their expense, an impression that has become even stronger in the current economic recovery, in which rising earnings have done little to offset high unemployment, local business distress, and severe pressures on community services.
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So when they turned to biotechnology in the 1990s to help boost their flagging sales and offset high development costs, such companies focused on easy traits that would be of immediate interest to farmers, their traditional customer, rather than to food manufacturers or shoppers.
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The aim is to offset the high freight costs Ethiopian businesses pay by streamlining the entire transport process.
Import tariffs were so high that they fully offset the huge falls in transport costs in the four decades before 1914.
The tables' visibility meant they could be turned into floating billboards and thus attract sponsors to offset the high cost of an event.
Rents in the rebuilt city center are expected to rise sharply to offset the high cost of building offices on a speculative basis.
If the price of crude continues to rise, investing in oil firms might just be the best way to offset those high prices at the pump.
They increased their deductible to offset the high premiums.
All this with a weak dollar offset by the high cost of oil imports.
Because premiums were high, we looked to offset some of the cost of this protection by selling some insurance.
And large solid companies, particularly utilities, which pay high dividends that will help offset any decline in their stock prices, will also provide protection for portfolios.
The victory helped the Department of Justice offset losses in other high profile cases involving baseball legend Roger Clemens and former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards.
The result, says Parker, is that airlines are retiring their old, inefficient planes, removing capacity from the system, but not nearly enough to offset the effects of high fuel prices.
Mr Cable also used his conference speech to set out proposals for an increase in tax on "high alcohol" drinks to be offset by a cut in the VAT on fruit juices from 17.5% to 5%.
This market movement prompted AIG to once again take its chances in the high risk investments as it seeks to offset low bond yields.
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India also needs to keep rates high enough to attract foreign capital and offset the current-account deficit, in order to keep the rupee from weakening and making inflation worse.
India also needs to keep rates high enough to attract foreign capital and offset the current account deficit, in order to keep the rupee from weakening and making inflation worse.
The clothing chain saw a 2.7% drop in Autumn and pre-Christmas sales at its High Street stores, although this was offset by a big jump in sales at its online business.
But considering the strong U.S. job market, which has helped offset the draining effects of high gas prices, many forecasters would not be surprised to see an improvement in school sales over last year.
It said that while the measures had helped it bring down its costs, "the reductions were not enough to offset in full the effects of high fuel prices and weak revenues".
If the lump-of-labour argument were correct, you would expect to see that a high employment rate among the wrinklies would be offset by a low employment rate among the youngsters, and vice versa.
The high capital depreciation of this equipment must be offset by running it at full capacity, so rather than cut production the market participants lower prices to entice customers away from their competition, creating a downward price spiral.
His not-for-profit organization, Carbon Manna Unlimited, has developed a system of direct micro-payments to rural people who offset their carbon production through the use of high-efficiency stoves.
Doctors' salaries are so high not only because of supply and demand but also to offset the amounts they have to invest in education and in malpractice insurance.
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