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The retailer took rapid steps to distance itself from the case, attempting to offset a damaging public relations storm as news of the prosecution triggered widespread criticism.

Admittedly the concept is a bit flawed: attempting to offset a season of programming about London by talking about London a bit more, albeit from a negative point of view.

Fairfax is attempting to offset the decline in newspaper revenues by diversifying its assets, which include Macquarie Media's radio stations 2GB, 2UE and 3AW, Life Media & Events and the video streaming service Stan.

In 1994 Poland unveiled three levels of personal income tax (21 percent, 33 percent, and 45 percent; in 2000 reduced to 19 percent, 30 percent, and 40 percent), attempting to offset the new burden with a simultaneous program of investment tax relief.

Labour, in return, said the government was attempting to offset the blame for savage spending cuts that will be introduced in coming months, while a former member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee, economist David Blanchflower, warned that talking the economy down risked a "death spiral".

What the book taps, says Kobek, is a visceral emotional impulse he encountered frequently on his just-concluded national book tour, its ranting tone and merciless humor attempting to offset a feeling of powerlessness commonly felt by internet users The book defines this as "intellectual feudalism produced by technological innovation arriving in the disguise of culture".

In this situation, radical newspapers had only two options: to move upmarket and try to draw in the kind of readers attractive to advertisers, or to attempt to offset their losses with donations from readers.

The announcement from Arts Council England (ACE) that it will attempt to offset a potential 17% cut in funding to national portfolio organisations (NPO) by using lottery funding to pass on a 2% cut is welcome, but carries significant risks.

The underlying theory is that the expectation of faster consumer price inflation causes prices to rise more rapidly as people attempt to offset the anticipated erosion of their purchasing power by spending more on goods and services.

Mississippi tries to lay its ghosts Freewheeling Mark Sanford, surfboarding revolutionary ReprintsThat decline in demand would be compounded if cigarette companies attempted to offset steep price increases by using more cheap foreign tobacco.

REUTERS BREAKINGVIEWS BNP Said to Plan Merger of American Units  |  The Financial Times reports: "BNP Paribas is planning a full-blown merger of its U.S. operations as it attempts to offset the impact of threatened US regulatory reforms for foreign banks, according to people familiar with the project".