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A lot of their big drugs are going to lose patent protection, without the introduction of new drugs that will offset that, ... buy.

Although higher income and employment levels have offset the impact of rising gas prices on consumer confidence, there is a considerable degree of dread about future prospects among middle- and lower-income households.

American Airlines is benefiting from much improved pricing and load factors, particularly in the U.S. domestic market, which are helping to offset very high fuel prices.

A March event from a PR and marketing standpoint would have a shelf life that would lend itself to your summer market, which is not nearly as lucrative for us as an October date. Now do you get a little more publicity? Do you get a little more exposure? Do your ratings nationally go up? I think maybe they all offset each other, but at the same time it is not an equal transition from October to March if you look at it strictly from PR and marketing.

A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it.

They've done well to have enough gains from the sale of assets to be able to offset these losses because they were in fact quite a bit bigger than the initial estimates.

Quality is a little hard to figure out, but strong asset management incentive fees offset weaker restructuring fees resulting in in-line revenue.

Our third quarter typically reflects a post-holiday seasonal decline in revenues. Although bookings picked up in October and November, it is too early to tell whether that momentum will carry over enough to offset the normal seasonal pattern.

Our congressman, Bill Thomas, certainly had an impact. That certainly could offset all of the other congressional interventions, for sure.

Ours is a fixed cost for another three years and we are not going to have the revenue to offset that cost.

Energy stocks have been on fire, and the big gains they've posted will more than offset what people (who own these stocks) have been paying at the pump.

During the latter part of the last century, in the 1980s and 1990s, there was a small but steady population increase. The younger population for a large part doesn't stay in the area. We lose the college-age population, but new people are moving in to offset that loss.

During the run up over the past few years, the tendency has been to look at these companies as a synchronized sector, but that's all changing now. In the next 18 months, underneath all the rhetoric that good markets will offset deteriorating ones, nearly everyone expects there's going to be casualties among home builders of various sizes. The every-man-for-himself era among big residential construction companies has arrived.

During the third quarter, particularly strong results in our tobacco businesses were partially offset by continuing challenges at Kraft.

Even if that was a total cost -- without the offset -- I think that is a reasonable cost to resolve this problem.

There's going to be some disappointment in the Big W result, but that is going to be largely offset by continued strength in the hotels division. Hotels seems to go from strength to strength.

The result is that about 50 percent of the biomass carbon is retained. By sequestering huge amounts of carbon, this technique constitutes a much longer and significant sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide than most other sequestration options, making it a powerful tool for long-term mitigation of climate change. In fact we have calculated that up to 12 percent of the carbon emissions produced by human activity could be offset annually if slash-and-burn were replaced by slash-and-char.

We are seeing the benefits from our investment spending, which helped generate record revenues in our international businesses and record revenues globally in our corporate and investment banking business. Strength in these franchises more than offset weaker results in our U.S. consumer business.

There is plenty of scope to offset the costs of Katrina.

We have seen people coming forward with any number of good ideas. We believe this is a multi-step process that starts first with spending cuts to offset the expense of Katrina.

The unit growth is not so strong as to offset the price declines they're seeing in their chips.

This approval takes some risk out of the equation for them. If they can get the production capacity, it has the potential to be a significant drug. The big issue for Bristol is patent expirations and whether the pipeline can offset them.

Third quarter results are disappointing as sales increases in much of our portfolio were offset by declines in the Barbie brand,

The weight of evidence is showing housing is starting to cool. Prices have continued to rise faster than income. For a while that pattern has been offset by declining mortgage rates, but that's stopped.

A fair number of first-time home purchases were brought forward because rates were so good, and a number of people also moved up in the market, when they were able to get a bigger mortgage at a lower rate. When rates move up, you won't get those first-time sales or the move-up factor. Is that offset by the benefits of economic expansion? In our view, not quite.

This is an unambiguously positive outcome for Qantas. This increases confidence in a return to strong earnings momentum in 2006-07 as slowing capacity growth by rival carriers, robust demand and ongoing cost savings more than offset the residual fuel cost headwind.

Individual accounts offset some of the benefit reduction you'd otherwise see.

In Europe, comparable sales rose 3.6% in August, due to strong performance in France and Germany partly offset by continued weakness in the United Kingdom, ... We will build on this encouraging business momentum with successful customer-focused plans across Europe.

Improved performance in our Pennsylvania delivery and international delivery business segments more than offset the tighter margins in our supply business segment.

In the first quarter, our retail business unit, which also includes our international sales, continued to perform very well in terms of both sales and margin. Unfortunately, our positive retail results were partially offset by losses in our professional sales unit. As a result, we essentially broke even in the quarter, prior to litigation expenses of $14 million.

If you lose the development as a result, we continue to have 100 percent of zero (new revenue). Incentives are an investment on the communities' part, to offset some of the related cost to bring development and the jobs and the tax revenue that result from it.

If you are advocating a spending increase or a tax cut somewhere, you have got to find an offset to pay for it to maintain that balance.

Oil remains the wild card for industry profitability. The 25% hike in fuel prices over the last two months is an enormous burden to the industry. However, the S$ 1.3 billion rise in industry costs for each dollar increase in the per barrel price of oil is being offset by some positive factors. Industry hedging levels are 50%. Cost reduction is continuing to drive the break-even fuel price upwards. And the US domestic yield rose 12.4% in February.

As we said in December, we believe that growth in our short-cycle businesses such as GE Plastics and NBC, continued growth at GE Capital, and savings from our initiatives will more than offset the falloff in sales of GE Power Systems gas turbines that we anticipate.

A tax increase offset by larger tax cuts may or may not be a good idea, but it's not a sin.

A tax-managed fund is simply a fund who's goal it is to maximize after-tax returns, whereas most funds are focused on pretax returns, ... I think the one thing that probably all of them have is the idea of selling losers to offset gains. If you've just realized profits on one stock you'll sell a few dogs.

At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts.

Strong growth among firms in business and professional services and truck transport offset somewhat weaker reports from manufacturers for March.

Strong loan and deposit growth and the bank's ability to control deposit costs more than offset margin compression pressure from the flat yield curve (in 2005).

Strong performances in continental Europe and Asia were more than offset by a sharp downturn in home-related spending in the UK, presenting B&Q with its toughest trading environment for many years.

The beneficent effects of the regular quarter-hour's exercise before breakfast is more than offset by the mental wear and tear involved in getting out of bed fifteen minutes earlier than one otherwise would

The average investor may have exited the market post 9/11, but these households simply stayed the course, letting their investments regain value over time. This strategy is starting to pay off. Some investment losses were offset by gains in real estate, but for the most part, ownership of stocks and bonds remained fairly stable.

The benefits more than offset any risk limitations.

That helps offset the slowing housing market. They have diversification that a lot of other builders don't have. But I do think their earnings growth will slow. There's no doubt about that.

The board opted to retain $6.5 million in order to offset the negative impact we've had on fuel prices.

It varies by category, but it's a significant offset in many cases.

Anytime we can get some grant money to help offset the costs (Davenport) taxpayers would have to cover we are very appreciative, ... The department did a great job in going after the grant.

On balance, this is a very strong set of data. Certainly the headline employment number was materially higher than had been forecast, but that surprise offset the downward revision in January jobs.

Domestic financial institutions have incurred losses in the bond market and they are selling stocks to offset these losses.

The interest rate differential between the best offset and best standard mortgages has been consistently narrowing. It now stands at between 0.2 and 0.25 per cent.

Their third-quarter profit was supported by a really solid quarter at Sam's Club. This shows again why Sam's matters so much to Wal-Mart's consolidated profitability, ... Smoother performance at Sam's has been a big plus recently, and it has to hold up in order to offset the rising influence of supermarket margins from the other division.

The few positives are offset by multiple, significant negatives.

It's best to have one investment style offset another. It is very, very hard to predict whether growth or value . . . is going to outperform.

They came out with an excellent game plan, spacing the floor out which offset a lot of our pressure. Our kids knew what was coming. We just failed to be consistent about being where the ball was.

in a case of massive publicity Los Angeles County will necessarily always be the venue of choice since the adversities of publicity are offset by a trial being conducted in a populous metropolitan area.

In the short term, any kind of disruption from two very large producers like Iran and Nigeria isn't something that can be offset by other production.

Higher interest rates are beginning to take a toll on how people view their finances. Mortgage rates are nearly as high as they have been over the past three years, and the slowdown in the housing market is becoming more apparent. The jobs picture is encouraging, though, and higher incomes should help offset the negatives as we move into the spring and summer.

Higher materials costs looks like they're being offset by better pricing. That was an issue, especially with Ingersoll-Rand that we were watching for.

I hit the ball really well. I made a couple of putts here and there but overall I feel like I really played well. Even though I made three bogeys, 10 birdies usually offset the bogeys,

In the preliminary reading an increase in the index of current conditions was offset by a decrease in the expectations index. We expect a similar breakdown in the final survey.

I offset them. Sometimes they're all the way up here and if I'm right here I bring them down a notch to an even keel. So you just have to have me. If they didn't have me they wouldn't be who they are. You need somebody who's emotional because you think about other people when you're emotional. You put other people's feelings into regards. I think about them more than I think about myself and I help them out.

Investors want a piece of the integrated European economy and the pound is proving to be a way in. Weakness in the U.K. economy is being offset by the willingness of investors to invest in the country's businesses and buy bonds.

I really think what you've had here is that they've all had the same issue, losing product patents. It's hard to simply offset that with cost cutting, but it's nothing systemic in the company.

I just played pretty steady today. I didn't make too many mistakes other than that bogey, but offset that with a bunch of birdies. I feel like I can make anything out there.

If you were to look at Alaska simply with its corporate tax code compared to the rest of the United States, it would rank very poorly because it's a very complicated corporate tax system, very high tax rates, but that is offset and balanced by the fact that Alaska does not have a personal income tax and does not have a sales tax.

Buying back stock to offset dilution is not a bad thing but it's not sending a message about the attractiveness of the security.

Honeywell is trying to offset the horrible situation they have on the commercial side. Any news about this (from Honeywell) is like having a bucket of water thrown on you with the events of Sept. 11 and trying to dry it off with a small handkerchief.

Home appreciation was offset by lousy wage growth and debt accumulation.

I didn't see that there was enough there to offset the risk of growing tobacco,

Clearly, the COLA is not going to be enough to offset these higher costs, particularly in heating,

He said on the House floor that he was never a Populist, never a Prohibitionist, and that people were mistaken to think that. And he began to support the bills the (oil) monopolies wanted. The only thing that offset the change was that he was no longer involved because he had lost interest.

They were buying those shares to offset the shares they had issued in conjunction with the issuance of options. It was, shall we say, a bit misleading.

They were seeing some weakness in desktop and strength in notebooks, but not enough to offset the weakness in desktop,

It's well intentioned, but we think it's misguided. If the state has additional funds available that would be used to offset this tax credit, then it ought to be used to fulfill its constitutional mandate to fund schools adequately.

It's clear that interest rates are going to edge up further. But the offset of that could be the jobs that are being created.

It's clear that the Department of Natural Resources will force utilities to reduce their emissions to offset the new pollution created by the ethanol mandate.

The most profitable categories of the business saw a sales decline in the fourth quarter. We saw very significant low-margin category growth, but frankly the dollars were simply not large enough in terms of gross profit dollars to offset the other things that were happening in the business.

After Mr. Bush's commitment last night, we could probably see some related issues in play that will offset any fallout from the negative sentiment we've had lately,

Apple has offset the gross margin pressure by managing its business better.

And the provision included to offset the cost of these programs recognizes that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for certain lifestyle prescription drugs through Medicare and Medicaid.

As far as the Fed goes, it really isn't inflation on the ground that's a concern, it's inflation down the road. For a very long time, they've offset that with global concerns, but there doesn't appear to be any more world crises to worry about.

The big question now is how much companies will be able to raise prices for finished products to offset the hit to profits from higher unit labor costs.

The bottom line: we have lost a significant share of our natural gas supply, and imports cannot offset this loss. The result will be higher natural gas prices this winter.

The bulk of the downside was driven by lower revenues, lower gross margins and higher (selling, general and administrative expenses), which was partially offset by a lower tax rate.

The impact has been felt by individual rural households, and has only partly been offset by government compensation to farmers.

All through the permit process there were some concerns on the part of local officials. In the end, I think we came up with a plan that passed muster with town officials in Johnson, ... To some extent we can see their point, which is that this will create some new points of potential danger, both on Route 15 and Hogback Road because of parking, but those are more than offset by the hazards it removes by asking every hiker to walk 1.5 miles down the road.

The frontal offset crash tests aren't providing consumers with much useful information anymore.

The future of the graphic communications industry is digital, and Xerox will continue to be the digital printing partner of choice, ... As new and traditional processes converge, we're building bridges between offset and digital printing, helping customers gain a competitive advantage with the right technology, the right workflow and the right business model.

The combination of trying to offset both the pollution and devastating our natural resources - which are the kind of habits we should get over.

The clear message seems to be that while oil is a drag, it's not a downward driver of consumer spending, ... The labor market is generating good income in general and the housing market continues to deliver a positive wealth effect. These factors are helping to offset the impact of higher oil prices.

You've got to offset the losses. If we don't get the market access we need, we're going to turn to our Congress and say that we can't support this agreement.

The economy is still on a fast track, the demand for production materials is robust, and oil prices remain high, which will combine to offset flat retail prices.

The dollar has shown not a great deal of reaction largely because the retail sales headline data looked pretty bad but the revisions to the prior data pretty much offset that.

The economic stimulus from rebuilding will help offset the economic drag caused by higher energy prices.

The idea of it was that the city would help offset some of the offsite development costs, based on the extra tax base that was going to be generated,

The increased pessimism about the regional economy has offset more robust consumer confidence in the Southeast over the first six months of the year.

The increase in orders is particularly welcome. The bond market may like the fact that the prices paid component dropped 11 points, reversing most of the big gain in November. Analysts are banking on strength in manufacturing next year to offset some of the expected weakness in housing related consumer demand.

The unfavorable effects of inflation, net of price, and exchange were partially offset by cost controls and productivity improvements in manufacturing, selling and general and administrative expenses.

The evidence is fairly convincing that smaller schools are more effective. At the district level there are some modest benefits of having a larger organization, but those are more than offset by the deficits of larger schools.

Although December sales started relatively strong and picked up at the end of the month, we were not able to offset mid-month weakness, ... For the full month, traffic was up slightly, but not at the level of improvement we experienced in November.