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If we get a big kick start to the quarter with a strong April, that could offset us being a bit weaker than we expected to be in the first quarter.

Bob Schnorbus

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.

Thomas Leritz

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

Michael Tanner

Inflation seems like a theoretical construct. But with any goal that's in the future, it is absolutely critical to think about how much additional you need to save or make to offset the impact of inflation.

Paula Chauncey

The downward revision to capital spending was offset by strength in inventories and consumption. All in all, it's a marginal downward revision. A domestic-demand-led economic recovery is continuing.

Takeshi Minami

We are applying to the state for grants that will help offset the cost of those folks who can't afford it.

Roger Lehman

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

James Denney

[FPL buys oil on the futures market to protect against future spikes in energy costs, but that is not enough to offset FPL's increased costs from] a world oil market that is going absolutely crazy, ... We can't hedge our entire fuel needs.

Bill Swank

But we offset the negative impact fully through the sales increase and cost-savings.

Takeshi Suzuki

Offset the soaring cost of fuel.

Pietro Lunardi

Steve Jobs' presence at the analyst meeting can help to energize the financial community and offset some of the 'sell on the news' pressures.

Andrew Neff

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

John Rother

We are still awaiting the resumption of financial assistance from Fifa. We are confident the money will be coming soon so we can offset some of the debts we have incurred on the boys and girls teams and also arrange for better training facilities for the boys before their next match.

Dan Omino

We're seeing how public programs are helping offset what is happening on the employer-based side.

Kathleen Stoll

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

Phil Arnold

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

Richard Langford

Just as we did in the McCarthy era, we have offset the decline of traditional forms of repression with the development of new forms of repression. A historical comparison reveals not so much a repudiation as an evolution.

David Cole

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.

Michael Gregory

It's a monumental trading error, but fortunately this is a large bank with deep reserves. They have significant unrealized gains on equity holdings that they can tap into to offset losses and meet their financial forecast.

Jason Rogers

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.

Scott Manley

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

Gary White

We have seen a little bit of people backing off the market. But it is being offset by the vast number of people moving into the area that are not that way.

Jim Reppond

But for out-of-state customers buying direct, we could offer California prices to offset those costs, and offer products not available in all states.

Phil Bilodeau

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.

Chris Reynolds

Results from these areas more than offset revenue declines in some other segments, most notably our consumer PC business.

Louis Gerstner

History proves that we give thoughtful consideration to fare moves. Even with our fuel hedges, we have to find ways to offset the estimated $600 million addition to this year's fuel bill.

Paula Berg

We do not see enough in the strategy outlook to offset the slightly disappointing results.

Gordon Gray

The offset side of that is the potential that when it breaks, you will have to pay for it.

Jim Sebastian

Metabolically speaking, we've found this to be much cheaper than we anticipated. The energy you exert could be offset by carrying an extra snack, which is nothing compared to weight of extra batteries. Pound for pound, food contains about 100-fold more energy than batteries.

Larry Rome

High crude oil prices had the biggest impact on the trade balance. Exports also grew but their growth was offset.

Tatsuya Torikoshi

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Brian Mcdonald

We tried to apply pressure, but they offset it. They handled the pressure well.

Tim Joyce

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

Lorna Tilbian

St. Joe has built thousands of homes in South Walton County, so we're hoping they'll help offset some of the consequences of that growth.

Wayne Miller

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

Milan Brahmbhatt

Car engines have gotten a lot more cleaner-burning, but a lot of that has been offset by increased traffic.

Tim Maloney

We had quite a game in New Haven. We played an up-tempo game. We caused Cross numerous turnovers (36 for the game) to offset the height advantage.

Ted Kaczynski

This stabilization in overall coverage rate can be explained by increases in government coverage that offset the decline in employer-based coverage.

Charles Nelson

When you're not very good at something like free throws you need some things to go your way to offset that. For such a poor job of shooting free throws we needed something to happen.

Paul Sather

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.

Bryan Taylor

We want to keep it as reasonable as possible but still be able to offset some of our costs.

Chuck Kidwell

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.

Paul Peterson

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.

Joseph Lisanti

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register ? that can be done fairly quickly. Our members need a grace period to implement accounting changes for input tax credits, plus some assistance to offset the costs of making the changes.

Garth Whyte

The question is, can we offset the increase that will be necessary to install these new technologies by cost reductions through mining smarter. I don't know.

Preston Chiaro

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.

Matt Hoult

We estimate it will take 150,000 to 200,000 acres to meet the offset.

Mark Rey

It is quite clear that the increase in productivity is not large enough to offset the full cost of the 35-hour week.

Dr. John Martin

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.

Ray Boulger

Our natural gas prices are going up and everything else is. How do I offset that?

Spike Jones

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.

Frank Vargo

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

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

It looks like they were able to offset the negatives of higher gas and oil prices.

Lloyd O'carroll

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?

James Fallows

Our savings programs are delivering well and, together with an improved mix, they have enabled us to fully offset the impact of higher input costs.

Patrick Cescau

From Intel's perspective, this is a new market they're trying to enter that has high margins. They need to be successful in order to offset the low-end market.

David Powers

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.

Homi Kharas

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.

Jeff Reid

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

Barbara Ryan

She?s just big enough and physical enough to offset (6-1 center Allie Munson?s) height. New Britain?s guards did a nice job bringing back-side help to make it look like it was a lot more open than it really was.

Jim Dinello

We're not looking to gain a lot of revenue with this fee, but offset new programs and activities we're creating with the new facility.

Tim Dentler

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

Ken Hardie

Demonstrating the benefit of our diversified business model, most of our consumer business showed strong growth this quarter and helped to offset the decline at Home Mortgage.

John Stumpf

Mobile growth came to some extent at the expense of desk-based PCs. Emerging regions had steady desk-based PC growth, however it could not offset the very weak desk-based PC growth in the mature regions.

Charles Smulders

It'll be a diversification for us. Tourism has been good for us, but we need something to offset the travel and tourism industry.

Bob Elder

If oil prices continue to shoot up, instead of the state getting a massive windfall, Colorado families get to offset their heating costs.

Jon Caldara

What's been disturbing to me, over the last few years (the price) has been high and consistently high, ... There hasn't been a low to offset the high.

Tony Clark

No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.

Henry P. Fairchild

There is no immediate economic benefit. It's just a nice benefit to offset some of the costs we have for our overall recycling program.

Kurt Ferguson

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

Shaw Wu

Most of the LTL carriers can pretty much offset any large increase in fuel costs.

Jason Seidl

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.

Timothy Geithner

The few positives are offset by multiple, significant negatives.

Daniel Sisto

November's unemployment rates were a bit of a mixed bag. We had some gains in retail jobs that were offset by some layoffs in manufacturing, but (the layoffs) were not dramatically reflected in the numbers.

Steve Rogers

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.

Matt Miksic

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

Sue Trinh

Everybody we have played has run a five-man front on us because we use two tight ends and like to run the ball. That enables the defense to balance up better with our offense. Occasionally, we will try to go with an unbalanced line to offset that.

Marty Jaggers

Nepal uses its strengthening relationship with China to offset its dependence on India. Tibet is of crucial importance in all of that dynamic.

Kate Saunders

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

Dan Niles

We're hoping to be able to offset the price of fuel ... by having more passengers ride ... instead of having to raise fares.

Mike Rizzo

There is a wage premium in the Bay Area. The critical question, however, is whether that premium is sufficient to offset the higher cost of living here.

Jean Ross

These changes will remove the supply constraints, that will more than offset the consumer impact.

Yan Kefeng

What we likely know is the ($2.96) increase will not be completely offset.

Michael Yackira

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

David Griffin

We believe a fee may be appropriate to help offset the additional costs associated with foreign transactions, but we don't plan to assess a fee at this time.

David Webster

I thought we did a nice job with our press. It really helped offset our foul trouble.

Scott Chaffee

The benefits more than offset any risk limitations.

Mark Steber

[The Dodgers] obviously felt like they needed to spend that kind of money to offset some of the benefits he would have enjoyed with us -- familiarity, team support and a manager he knows and admires. Maybe they felt like they had to blow the doors off him, I'm surmising.

John Schuerholz

It's quiet, it's offset. If you didn't know it was here, you wouldn't have a reason to come here.

Marcella Anderson

It had been my hope to offer a reduced membership fee to offset the incremental cost to the high-end users with a trail fee, but since I've now been given a new set of numbers I can no longer support that.

Heather Cook

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

Peter Orszag

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.

Eric Chen

Some jobs in manufacturing might well disappear as a result of weakness in housing, but this may be offset by jobs brought home or not lost to foreign competition.

Edward Leamer

We were hoping Homeland Security would offset some of those reductions, ... It hasn't. We're down officers, the city of Boston is down officers, and the crime rate is beginning to creep back up again. I think there's a direct cause and effect here.

Edward Davis