Higher education cannot compete with the salary scales of the business world, but an educational institution can offer many potent intangible attractions to members of the business community that will offset the differences in income.

A small number of the best equipped and " elite divisions were offset by many second and third rate divisions ".

Cavalry " flying columns " proved effective, or at least cost-effective, in many campaigns — although an astute native commander ( like Samori in western Africa, Shamil in the Caucasus, or any of the better Boer commanders ) could turn the tables and use the greater mobility of their cavalry to offset their relative lack of firepower compared with European forces.

Even considering that the cost benefits are offset by a much reduced cruising speed, many people traveling distances in small boats come to appreciate the more leisurely pace and increased time spent on the water.

Even after the demise of the Linotype / hot lead, many early " offset " devices had paper tape readers on them to produce the news-story copy.

However, there are many organizations around the world that encourage tree-planting as a way to offset carbon emissions for the express purpose of fighting climate change.

Industry standards are often rules of thumb, developed over many years, that offset many conflicting goals: what people will pay for, manufacturing cost, local climate, traditional building practices, and varying standards of comfort.

Throughout the entirety of House of Leaves ( even including the cover and publishing information ), the word " house " is colored blue ( gray for non-color editions of the book and light gray for red editions ), as in < span style =" color :# 6086d1 ;"> house </ span >, and is, in many places in the book, offset from the rest of the text in different directions at different times.

To offset the loss of that school, Gettysburg was offered federal funds for a new water source ( the existing well source had many problems ) and other needs.

Many microcrystalline ceramics that were treated and had gained facture toughness lost their strength and hardness, with this many have created ceramic composites to offset the deterioration while increasing strength and hardness to that of nanocrystalline materials.

The overhead camshaft design adds more valvetrain components that ultimately incur in more complexity and higher manufacturing costs, but this is easily offset by many advantages over the older OHV design: multi-valve design, higher RPM limit and design freedom to better place valves, ignition ( Spark-ignition engine ) and intake / exhaust ports.

Since all segments are 64 KiB long, this explains the huge overlap that can occur between segments and that any location in the linear memory address space can be accessed with many segment: offset pairs.

Depending on how fast the mouse is moving, each image will be offset from the previous one by a fraction of a pixel or as many as several pixels.

While build to order has been an established business model in many other industries, " print on demand " developed only after digital printing began, because it was not economical to print single copies using traditional printing technology such as letterpress and offset printing.

They relied on an argument by Kip Viscusi which became known as the " death benefits " -- the idea that, since smokers died earlier than non-smokers, the nation was being saved hospital, pension and nursing-home costs, and that these offset many of the external costs on how these are calculated.

The basic gameplay tends to be straightforward and many games offset this with boss battles and a variety of weapons.

In many instances the cost of a bridge crane can be largely offset with savings from not renting mobile cranes in the construction of a facility that uses a lot of heavy process equipment.

This length by many was called the offset, span of vector length.

Without the opportunity to reach a larger audience in earlier time slots and achieve greater revenues, the show had limited ability to offset the residuals and music clearances required by the many performers appearing on the show.

Today this technology is used in photocopy machines, laser printers, and digital presses such as Xerox iGen3 and Xeikon presses which are slowly replacing many traditional offset presses in the printing industry for shorter runs.

Web and sheet-fed offset presses are similar in that many of them can also print on both sides of the paper in one pass, making it easier and faster to print duplex.

There are many types of paste inks available for employment in offset lithographic printing and each have their own advantages and disadvantages.

The quality of the prints made is consistently high, and the volume of prints created for their respective cost makes commercial offset lithography very efficient for businesses, especially when many prints must be created.

In many public safety agencies, simulcast refers to the broadcasting of the same transmission on the same frequency from multiple towers either simultaneously, or offset by a fixed number of microseconds.

On April 18, 2008, while Bullock was in Massachusetts shooting the film The Proposal, she and her then-husband were in an SUV that was hit head-on ( driver's side offset ) at moderate speed by a drunken driver.

The difference is that saying a consumer is risk averse merely implies that he or she dislikes facing risk, whereas prudence implies that the consumer takes action to offset the effects of the risk ( namely, by increasing saving ).

Yet we never say of the artist, or poet, or scientist, " Oh, poor soul -- she is not really responsible for that painting / theory / poem ; for don't you see how she had to rely on pen, paper, and sketches to offset the inadequacies of her own brain?

She offset these positions with her own standing as a new mother, framing her outlook in terms of " family values ," and in fact energetically campaigned for fellow Republicans with whom she disagreed on both abortion and FMLA.

Constance Spry ransacked attics for unusual objects to use as containers and drew inspiration from the Dutch 17th and 18th-century flower painters, while she popularized unusual plant materials to offset flowers, like pussy willow, weeds and grasses and ornamental kale.

The Nova provided four accumulators, AC0-AC3, although AC2 and AC3 could also be used to provide offset addresses, tending towards more generality of usage for the registers.

Odds can also be placed on a don't come-bet just like a pass line bet ; in this case the dealer ( not the player ) places the odds bet on top of the bet in the box, because of limited space, slightly offset to signify that it is an odds bet and not part of the original don't come bet.

In recent years, German production interests have also become very involved with American television and film production to help offset the costs of such productions, as evidenced by the company credits in certain films and TV shows.

The costs of these provisions are offset by a variety of taxes, fees, and cost-saving measures, such as new Medicare taxes for those in high-income brackets, taxes on indoor tanning, cuts to the Medicare Advantage program in favor of traditional Medicare, and fees on medical devices and pharmaceutical companies ; there is also a tax penalty for those who do not obtain health insurance, unless they are exempt due to low income or other reasons.

It also provides for a standardized method of communicating time-based information across time zones by attaching an offset to Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC ).

There are also more modern works from the beginning of the 20th century that offset and reflect the older works of art in the artful way they are presented by the curator.

* 56px S ( also called " inverted N ", " reverse squiggly ",): two stacked horizontal dominoes with the top one offset to the right.

* 53px Z ( also called " N ", " skew ",, " snake ", " squiggly ",): two stacked horizontal dominoes with the top one offset to the left.

The Great Moore's Law Compensator ( TGMLC ), generally referred to as bloat, and also known as Wirth's law, is the principle that successive generations of computer software acquire enough bloat to offset the performance gains predicted by Moore's Law.

A beam coupling, also known as helical coupling, is a flexible coupling for transmitting torque between two shafts while allowing for angular misalignment, parallel offset and even axial motion, of one shaft relative to the other.

Phase noise is sometimes also measured and expressed as a power obtained by integrating &# x2112 ;( f ) over a certain range of offset frequencies.

The subtractive color concept is also used in offset or digital print and is present in bitmap or vectorial software in CMYK or other color spaces.

In this model each person must recruit two others, but the ease of achieving this is offset because the depth required to recoup any money also increases.

However, this also means any losses cannot be offset against future earnings for tax calculations.

The double-precision binary floating-point exponent is encoded using an offset-binary representation, with the zero offset being 1023 ; also known as exponent bias in the IEEE 754 standard.

Intracellular Mg concentration has also been shown to be effective in modulating insulin action ( mainly oxidative glucose metabolism ), offset calcium-related excitation-contraction coupling, and decrease smooth cell responsiveness to depolarizing stimuli.

The person is also located at a certain offset from the origin.

The fuel-injected engine also received a new muffler and the option of an upstream catalytic converter required on some models ( e. g. California ), necessitating a bulge in the rear apron sheet metal directly under the rear bumper, and replacing the distinctive dual " pea shooter " pipes with a single offset tailpipe – making fuel-injected models identifiable at a glance.

Foreland basin thrusts also usually observe the ramp-flat geometry, with thrusts propagating within units at a very low angle " flats " ( at 1-5 degrees ) and then moving up-section in steeper ramps ( at 5-20 degrees ) where they offset stratigraphic units.

Canvas can also be printed on using offset or specialist digital printers to create canvas prints.

By contrast, in a system with positive cooperativity such as hemoglobin, the plot begins as a line with slope, then ramps up to a new line ( also with slope ) that is offset upwards.

There are also critical matters regarding how negative feedback during the post auction stage can offset the benefits of using eBay as a trading platform.

The Palazzo dei Conservatori was also to be restored, and a new building, the so-called Palazzo Nuovo, built at the same angle on the north side of the piazza to offset the Conservatori, creating a trapezoidal piazza.

Companies may also take out strike insurance prior to an anticipated strike, to help offset the losses which the strike would cause.

The economic stimulus to one nation's defense sector is offset not only by immediate opportunity costs, but also by the costs of the damage and devastation of war to the country it attacks.