Increased smoking among women and teenagers has offset the decline among men.

Although outlays for merchandise fell, spending on services more than offset the decline.

Buy programs and normal trading activities helped offset the strong decline.

Over the last decade, many have set up or expanded operations abroad, and now their new foreign revenues offset the decline in the dollar.

Research indicates that from 1965 to 2002, the increase in women's labor force participation more than offset the decline for men.

But that is because, until recently, foreign students enrolled in large-enough numbers to more than offset the American decline.

The growth of high technology has more than offset the continuing decline in basic steel making, long Pittsburgh's bread and butter.

But that increase does not nearly offset the continuing decline in fertility among women in their 20's.

But the gains are not enough to offset the decline in "physical" album sales, which have been dwindling for four of the last five years.

However, this improvement has been insufficient to offset the decline in other areas.