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Worse, in a bid to offset the decline in music sales, companies raised the price of their CDs, which only increased the incentive to download them illegally.

Last year, it revamped its Saturday edition to become a weekend title also available on Sundays in a bid to offset the decline in circulation.

That will reduce the head-count, but will hardly bring needed improvements in productivity and efficiency.In a bid to offset the political cost of the wage cuts, and also to pre-empt demands from impatient EU partners, the government has announced a sweeping overhaul of the tax system, including a drive to collect more revenue from the rich.

The firm said it is cutting costs across all of its businesses in a bid to offset the softness.

Chris Henry will stick to his strengths in a bid to offset the loss of Sean O'Brien to Ireland's Six Nations squad.

In a bid to offset the loss of production at Kozloduy and restore its position as a major power exporter in the Balkans, Bulgaria revived plans for a second nuclear power plant, though these were later put on hold.

Instead, in some areas, a share of those dollars is likely to be diverted to state budgets, in a bid to offset some of the massive deficits that states have been struggling with since the economic downturn, according to reports.

There would be higher interest rates for repayments for those graduates earning more than £42,000, up from 3% to 4%, said shadow chancellor, Ed Balls, in a bid to offset concerns that the biggest winners would be high earners.

Airlines have cut jobs and reduced capacity in the last two years in a bid to offset declining revenue as the recession battered business and consumer demand for air travel.

In a bid to offset mining job losses, the town is working closely with the tourism and equine industries, and is planning a Muswellbrook university campus in a partnership with the University of Southern Queensland and vocational education provider, TAFE.

It is believed that an overshoot in the correction of PNa is followed by a swift reaccumulation of electrolytes (K+ and Cl−) which had initially been extruded by brain cells in a bid to offset brain edema in the early stages of hyponatremia [64].