In parallel with the April increase, the government spent an extra ¥5.5 trillion $51.4 billionn) in a bid to offset its effects.
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.
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.
Around 55,000 families have mortgaged their life savings and assets to invest in small solar farms in the countryside — with the guarantee of government-backed returns — in a bid to offset falling incomes from farming, said the National Association of Photovoltaic Energy Producers.
President Bush is expected to allow airlines again to make fuller use of military airspace over the holiday in a bid to offset delays caused by foul weather and flight congestion.
Though a few junk-bond issuers have tapped the market, part of the demand may have come from funds "gambling for resurrection", ie, taking a big risk for high yields in a desperate bid to offset losses elsewhere.For each scrap of good news, there is plenty of the bad stuff.
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.
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.
