Similarly, the drop in land used to grow coca has been offset by better productivity.

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On land, the huge patterns of habitat loss have been offset by gains in food production.

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Experts also say the potential savings here may be offset by higher prices somewhere else as farmers use their more crop land to experiment with alternative fuel crops.

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One of the simplest ways would be to eliminate payroll taxes, which would lower the cost of labor in the US by roughly 17 percent and offset that loss of revenues with taxes on materials, energy, pollution, and land.

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The job losses have been largely offset by the opening, a few miles away, of two vast casinos on Indian land (see article).

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Of course scarce land, red tape, poor education and infrastructure, and onerous labour laws partly offset this.

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