That way she owns lots of different stocks and a few cheating CEOs will be cancelled out by healthier companies.
Critics warned that any savings could be cancelled out by an increase in private companies taking public forestry subsidies.
Neither fact is incorrect, but it is debatable that historic events can be cancelled out by presenting a balance sheet.
They fear that the hoped-for boost in consumer spending will be cancelled out by Mr Eichel's cuts in subsidies and tax breaks.
Whatever money they'd save by cutting wages, bosses assume, would be cancelled out by the decline in effort and the breakdown of trust that wage cuts would create.
The view seemed to be that any loss to creditors would be cancelled out by gains to debtors; net world debt is zero, as a wag recently tweeted.
They said their impact would not be cancelled out by the new national living wage for the over 25s that will be worth £9 an hour in 2020.
"We are not convinced that improvements to the terms for some consumers would be cancelled out by worse terms at the time an account is opened".
Can the low representation of women in parliament be cancelled out by a high proportion of homes connected to gas?Whatever the value of such comparisons, the report is a mine of interesting comparative data.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, the thinktank that specialises in assessing the state of the public finances, has also raised eyebrows at Osborne's 2014 budget, in which tax cuts were supposed to be cancelled out by spending cuts.
"If the Arab residents become wonderfully integrated and their numbers reach thirty-five per cent to forty per cent of the total population, the Jewish state will be cancelled out and become a binational state," he said.
