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In recent years, schools have somewhat offset the slowdown in federal and state support for research by cutting administrative overhead.

"It's hard to offset the slowdown in the largest projects in North America and Japan," Ericsson's chief executive, Hans Vestberg, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.

"Although the group maintained a strong momentum in the US and Europe, this did not offset the slowdown recorded in China," the company said.

The big question now for Chinese policy makers is how much they are willing to ramp up government infrastructure spending and lending by state-owned banks to offset the slowdown.

Spreading ethanol technology to poor countries creates new suppliers, boosts the chances of a global market and generates business for Brazilian firms.The effort matters to the world's aid industry, too and not only because it helps offset the slowdown in aid from traditional donors.

A spokesman for the mayor, John Gallagher, said that the extra money being pocketed by the city in gas taxes as prices go up is not nearly enough to offset the slowdown in revenue from commercial real-estate transactions and profits on Wall Street.

Partly offsetting the slowdown in private health spending was a rapid increase in Medicaid spending, driven by the addition of 3.5 million people to the rolls.

To offset the industrial slowdown, China is relying on a rise in consumer demand driven through continuing urbanization and a growing middle class.

If the property market becomes just another Chinese bubble, it may not help offset the sharp slowdown among China's factories.

The company became the latest publisher to issue an earnings warning and to cut costs to offset the increasing slowdown in ad spending -- especially compared with levels a year earlier, when many Internet and technology companies were spending heavily.

But a majority of voters in four resource-rich eastern departments that have declared their autonomy rejected the constitution, which may presage future conflicts.Canada's Conservative minority government announced an expansionary federal budget involving the first fiscal deficit since 1996, together with a bigger buy-up of mortgage-backed securities, in an effort to offset the economic slowdown.