Donald Fine, chief market analyst at Chase Asset Management, said durable goods orders remained very strong; the January decline was almost offset by the upward revision to the December number.
But those are almost offset, the budget officials said, by declines in revenue from sales and income taxes, which provide more than three-fourths of the state's money.
Even more interesting, some sociologists have argued that the post-1970 decline in marriage was almost offset by an increase in cohabitation living together.
Huybrechts et al stated that the relatively higher costs of sevelamer therapy are almost offset by the prevention of nine cardiovascular events (which is associated with a saving of 200,000 USD in that study).
His performance was almost offset by a difficult top of the eighth from the Los Angeles bullpen, which gave up two runs between three relief pitchers.
For starters, the cut in the basic rate of income tax, to 20%, is almost entirely offset by the abolition of the 10% starting rate - a rate, incidentally, that Mr Brown introduced many years ago that he spent many years boasting about.
The risk of someone stealing your idea (which I've never seen happen) is almost always offset by the huge amount of value you get from sharing what you're working on and asking for feedback.
This large effect is, however, almost offset by significant decreases in the populations of inactive and unemployed persons.
However, the increase in wood density of a stand with a GF Plus rating of 27 over one with a rating of 18 is almost sufficient to offset the 25 kg m−3 reduction in wood density that is predicted to occur in stands established on ex-pasture sites compared with more traditional forest sites (Beets et al. 2007).
