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Strong sales of books, gift cards, DVD's, gifts and stationery were slightly offset by weak music sales, the chief executive, Gregory P. Josefowicz, said.

The losses in eight Democratic-leaning states were expected, aides said, and were slightly offset by gains in Nevada and Washington.

The scientists performed calculations based on Cassini's trajectory, Titan's orbit and Titan's rotation rate of once every 15 days, 22 hours, 41 minutes and 24 seconds, and they found that the 19 regions were slightly offset on the subsequent flybys from what the calculations predicted.

In transformants coexpressing mCherry/PiDIP13 and PiCdc14/GFP, both labeled structures near the site of flagella attachment, but the signals were slightly offset (Figure 3).

(Note: Levels of variation in the pre-existing SGA sequences were high enough in the V3 region that we could not always encompass the full V3 loop, and so sequences from this region were obtained that were slightly offset, and not centered on the loop).

Figure 1 shows HPLC/ICP-MS mass chromatograms of m/ z 75 (As) and HPLC/ESI-MS mass chromatograms of m/ z 155 ([M-H]−) for an MMMTAV standard and a SHIME extract using separation 2. The retention times of the MMMTAV in the standard and MMMTAV in the sample were slightly offset because the matrix of the soil extract caused the decreased retention of MMMTAV on the C18 column.

To optimise space, the controls are slightly offset and switchgear is mounted in the roof.

"We took a collision where it's mostly head-on, but it's slightly offset," Dr. Hernquist said.

That shortfall is slightly offset by faster reductions in spending over the next five years of around £2.9bn.

Sadly, the victory is slightly offset in Zoolander 2 by the stereotypical baddie played by Kristen Wiig, as a much-surgeried and botoxed style guru.

If you're wondering about the beer and cigarettes, price rises could, at least temporarily, be slightly offset by a flutter.