That includes a 4 percent raise to offset the difference between the benefits that A&M and Compass Group provide.
The $2.8 million the Padres will get from the Cardinals will offset the difference in Lankford's and Williams's salaries this season and next.
Omar Minaya, the Expos' general manager, made the deal by getting the Marlins to include about $1.5 million to offset the difference in salaries.
To help offset the difference, the Dodgers included $500,000 in the deal, but even if that sum were subtracted from the total payroll, the Yankees would still be in the nine-figure payroll area.
In 1996 Spain, lacking oil and gas resources, joined other European countries, including Germany and Denmark, in providing state funds to offset the difference for consumers between the cost of providing electricity from renewable sources and the market price.
("The women do have a maternity benefit," Kessler allowed. "Frankly, these days, the men should have one, too, but they didn't bargain for it. But that's hardly enough to offset the difference in pay").
If he's wrong about how much it will rise — as he was this time with his recently published price list of services — then his company has to offset the difference.
That is now well understood to have hurt the tourist industry, and the wider economy.That will not be enough to offset the difference however, as even more tourists are now attuned to Thailand's problems and willing go elsewhere on their merry ways.
Lawmakers have passed "pay-go" rules that prevent them from spending without offsetting the difference somewhere else.
