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You can run into an issue where the quality is compromised by the quantity. But the sponsor is not just involved to reach people on site. It's part of a broader marketing strategy. Any potential clutter is offset by greater tactical opportunities.

This is a great way of perhaps doing targeted recruitment. With tuition increasing it's important for us to find ways to offset that cost for students.

This is almost the best of all possible worlds, where labor is making money, and yet corporations have been able to offset that with productivity, and keep it themselves in terms of profits. It reminds everyone of the important contributions technology has been making to increased productivity in tight labor markets.

These are excellent results in a challenging broadcasting environment. The impact of weaker television advertising has been offset by cost savings.

The trucks have more content, but we offset the cost with some savings elsewhere. It's not thousands of dollars more.

It's almost like a flat tax. It doesn't matter if you are small company, SOX costs a set amount. That generally means you have to generate a lot more revenue to offset that cost.

It provides a relatively attractive yield but that is offset by ongoing uncertainties about the spin off.

There's an awful lot of positive things happening with our downtown. If there's some negative to offset it, it almost always points back to negative publicity surrounding that mall. The longer we allow that to be an issue, the more people will think the renaissance is still a ways off.

It's very difficult to see a clean decline and that is because, throughout that time, other states around us were raising their (tax) rates and (smokers) came to us to buy the cheaper cigarettes. That seems to have perfectly offset the natural decline in smoking in Kentucky.

I told the guys that we were doing too much standing around and waiting for someone else to make a play. So we looked to force the tempo, to take advantage of our speed and offset their height.

It's a little bit of puffery, to offset the bad news that's been out there the last three or four months. In automotive terms, it's pocket change. It's really not that much money in the scheme of things.

That really is a tough place to play. The gym is dark and the student body packs the stands. It's like a madhouse in there. We need our fans to come out and offset some of that.

As a company, we will deliver significant productivity improvements in 2006 that will offset a portion of the expected increases for energy-related costs in commodities and transportation across our company. We will maintain our focus on the profitable growth and expansion of our businesses to meet the world's demand for energy-efficient building materials and glass-composite solutions.

This past year has seen the sharp rise in fuel prices more than offset the efficiency gains and a strong revenue environment.

They had strong sales in consumer and construction, which more than offset lagging agricultural sales. Their end markets are turning favorable as the non-residential construction market rebounds.

They are definitely being affected by lower profits on sales of mortgages, and the shape of the yield curve. It's tough to totally offset these factors.

There isn't enough spare refining capacity around to offset these unpredictable events, ... We were stretched before the hurricane; the hurricane made a bad situation worse.

There's clearly weakness in desktop PCs and strong growth in notebooks, but not enough to offset the decline in desktops.

It was frustrating for us because we kept on having big plays that were offset by penalties. We just told the kids to come out in the first five minutes of the second half and set the tempo, and take their frustration out on Rice.

We have today and tomorrow as the last trading sessions of the year. With the stock being down so far, you would be looking at a little bit of tax selling to harvest those capital losses to offset gains in other areas.

We think it's a very innovative approach and it's very helpful to our ongoing efforts in that area. We'll be able to use (the recycled materials) in inner urban areas where we're doing a lot of work and it will help offset the costs.

We are unlikely to cover enough costs to fully offset recent input price increases, particularly higher energy prices. We could experience some deterioration in underlying earnings per share in the second quarter relative to the first quarter.

We expect global demand for our products to remain strong, and our productivity and pricing initiatives to help offset raw material and energy cost pressure,

We expect strong defense aftermarket revenues combined with some renewed interest in business jet travel to partially offset softness in commercial air transport markets, ... These factors plus accelerated cost productivity gains are expected to help offset income lost from the commercial air transport business.

To a large degree it (the cut in commissions) is helping offset the fuel prices. You're talking about some big bucks there. That's 3 percent of revenue to people who book 80 percent of your flights.

We just feel the state has to step up and start recognizing they have an obligation to towns like Acton and Sudbury and others to offset the continued reliance on local property taxes.

We want to find some way to offset rising tuition, ... We are looking at fees. Some of them are going up and don't need to be.

It looks unlikely the Kiwi dollar will be able to attract significant inflows to offset the maturities.

This is the kind of thing that happens with economic data. In any given month, you have random variations in price trends Those random changes tend to offset each other.

They're now looking at a situation where their shareholders are going to see the fund is down for the year but they're going to have to pay taxes on large gains. The managers are selling tech stocks that they might have bought at higher prices to realize losses and offset the gains.

However, a much larger drag seemed possible after the October surge, and a good portion of the rise will be offset by a gain in inventories in the quarter.

However, for hogs and poultry, the question is whether the increased price of corn will be offset by added value in the feed product that is returned. If not, this could mean some restructuring of the location of the U.S. and world animal industries. This appears to be particularly true for the eastern Corn Belt and the southeastern United States where hog, poultry and dairy are more dominant.

I am very pleased with our first quarter accomplishments, which included strong growth in client activity across many franchises. 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.

I don't think even a strong holiday season would be enough to offset the weakness we've already seen this year. I wouldn't want my job to depend on an up second half.

I am an extraordinary fan of defined benefit plans, but the world has in fact dramatically changed. If the offset is that companies start aggressively encouraging people to save and provide financial literacy education, that may be a very positive silver lining.

The Mallen #10-1 is a direct offset location to two prolific wells. This is the first of several locations we plan to re-enter in the Sooner Trend Field, using new cost efficient directional drilling technology provided by Weatherford Directional Services, Inc.

The market seems trapped between 1,200 and 1,212 on the S&P. We'll probably see a little strength later in the week, at the very least to offset last week's weakness; and if we see the S&P dip below 1,200, then I think some bargain hunters will come out.

And if all else were equal ... monetary policy in the affected countries would have to adjust in response: policy would have to act to offset these effects in order to achieve the same impact on the future path of demand and inflation.

And if this slowdown took place in 2004, it would be offset by an acceleration of Japanese imports from the region and higher global trade growth,

The limits of our military power must be obvious to all, and domestically we are divided as we have not been since Vietnam. So what should we do now? Can we think honestly about those with grievances against the U.S.? Can we think how to conclude the war in Iraq, how to offset the forces of extremism?