This, however, was slightly offset by a $700 million decline in retail assets, to $333.2 billion.

An increase in dismissed workers was nearly offset by a decline in layoffs.

These gains were partly offset by a decline in the promotional toy business.

But this overproduction this year might have been offset recently by a decline in the production from Iraq.

An increase in revenues from trading and finance activities were offset by a decline in sales of power products.

A small gain in buildings with two to four dwelling units was offset by a decline for apartment houses containing five or more units.

If you have no reason to fear that this saving may be offset by a future decline in the dollar, you should take advantage of it.

This was nearly offset by a decline of seven-tenths of 1 percent in car sales, to 100,017 units.

Mr. Ehrenhalt said that those increases were partly offset by a decline in charges for natural gas.

Higher profits for the broadcasting group in the recent quarter were largely offset by a decline in results for the company's magazines.