So when someone comes along with a claim to offset that load, well, we're going to listen.

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So food, beverage, and drug companies will continue to do well in an economic or market downturn, and the stocks of utilities and other solid companies that pay high dividends will also do well since the dividends will help offset a decline in the stock prices.

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Draws with Chelsea, Manchester United and Tottenham as well as a win over Liverpool have been offset by losses to Aston Villa, Blackburn, Newcastle and West Brom.

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Charles Schumer's 1998 campaign showed that a Democrat who does well in the larger urban areas upstate can offset the GOP's advantages in the smaller, rural areas.

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Expectations are for other airlines, which also raised ticket prices to aggressively offset fuel hikes, to post losses as well, with only Southwest possibly reporting a profit.

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The conference included many papers on various aspects and issues in energy assisted magnetic recording (HAMR is one version of this) as well as a technology called shingled magnetic recording where magnetic recorded tracks are written offset from each other giving a higher track density and thus more storage capacity.

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Rosy concrete works well with hardwood floors for color continuity, while a carpet of lawn may be used to offset the simplicity of a sleek courtyard.

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There are demands for a write-off, as well as for Russia's debts to the West to be offset by notional loans made long ago to Soviet satellite states such as Vietnam, or by the energy debts accumulated more recently by nearby countries such as Ukraine.

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Government spending had to ramp up, as you all suggested and we believed, had to ramp up to offset the contraction of the private sector spending as well as demand -- which, by the way, was a difficult concept to translate and transmit to the American people.

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