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This is the first time we literally caught them red-handed in the process of contacting their agents here and received evidence that they finance a number of non-governmental organizations.

This is not the utopian comprehensive solution to campaign finance. But this is a tourniquet to stop the bleeding.

The whole era of IT as a support function for marketing, finance, and sales is history.

The way the program works is that businesses would finance the program, but we would also like business people to volunteer at nonprofit organizations that partner with us.

This goes all the way to the top, including the vice-president and the minister of finance, so we consider it an extremely serious matter. The president should call fresh elections so the people can elect a government they trust in the task of eliminating corruption.

This contract is another opportunity to apply and demonstrate ACS' aptitude for innovation. We look forward to creating and implementing customized collection and loan accounting solutions for DT that will provide a solid foundation to support its rapid growth objectives. Our Consumer Finance Solutions team will bring ACS' proprietary technology and best-in-class service and support to DT.

This early progress in profitability is the result of a year-long effort and a validation of Intel's conviction that profits, not revenue, finance growth, ... Our financial strategy over the last year has been to preserve profits and protect financial health while proceeding with investments that make Intel more competitive.

This ad simply lays out the facts about the corruption allegations against DeLay that go way beyond the campaign finance charges he is facing in court. Rep. DeLay cannot intimidate stations to prevent public discussion of the serious charges leveled against him.

Think positively! Pull your finance together as soon as possible during the economic slowdown. Don't wait for things to happen to you. Shave off some extra expenses, refinance that home loan, restructure some of your debts...

They think the Finance Minister as a 'clerk' when it comes to fuel price hike.

They say the paperwork was lost somewhere in the mail and the check would be delayed six to eight weeks. So I think that we should just finance the entire thing through People's State and go from there,

A lot of people equate the Federal Reserve's actions with changes in consumer interest rates but there's not a direct connection or really an indirect connection, ... Personal Finance for Dummies.

A lot of it is dictated by banks. They won't finance anything that is not marketable.

All of our capital projects for the most part we tie to grants. The borough historically has always tried to finance capital projects through leveraging grants.

A lot of people oppose using tax dollars to finance a stadium because they live too far or have no interest in the sport. But if it can be demonstrated that the public has a potential use of a facility, then elected officials at every level would have a much better case for justifying public participation.

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work.

They get their deposits from a variety of sources. Some of it is savings but it is becoming more apparent that parents and grandparents are taking a greater role in helping out. In the case of grandparents, we have seen them taking out equity release loans to finance a deposit, and of course, there are inheritance tax considerations too.

This moves Sumitomo Trust into a new field - consumer finance. It's not at all a bad move.

There was no conclusion in the last meeting. We will meet Finance Minister next week or so.

This is very bad timing for the euro, and the report won't go down well with finance ministers or the European Commission, which is firmly against relaxation.

This is why we need ethics reform now. Rick Perry is trying to sell a school finance plan that has no new money for schools, and he's raising corporate money to do it.

There's been a dearth of buyers for small and medium sized businesses, which is why you've got to find creative ways to finance succession plans.

There's always a chair spare for the finance minister

There is still some trepidation about Y2K, as 6 percent of CFOs expect their firm will be subject to lawsuits as a result of problems that occur when the calendar changes from 1999 to 2000. And 13 percent of banking and finance firms anticipate lawsuits.

At first, he was thought of as extreme, but later, with the advent of computers, he was able to run large databases and establish a very large empirical record. I can't think of anyone who's had more impact on public finance in the second half of the 20th century.

Asset management acquisitions are safer, in our view, given the predictability of earnings, although they will likely be more expensive than banks or consumer finance companies.

It sends $3 of your tax money that you already pay into the fund. It sends a message that Maine people support campaign finance reform.

It is telling that the first major call for regulation to address the rapidly escalating impacts of climate change is coming from the finance sector.

It is quite expensive for most Indonesians. But I can show how to finance this hobby.

It means that if the final product is as the House proposed on this matter, the Federal Highway Administration will not approve the state's finance plan and the project would come to a halt.

It reads very clearly to me that the Ministry of Finance has done the homework and ready for implementation.

For me, as an economist, it was frustrating to have no sense of a theory of corporate finance to tie all this material together.

The number is not good for the dollar. There is increased difficulty for the U.S. to finance its swelling trade deficit.

It's too early to say whether an Internet privacy bill will be passed this year. It depends on other agenda issues like tax and campaign finance that need to be settled first. It's on the radar screen; some have even said it is the radar screen, but I don't think that's so.

It still looks as though it's gonna go down to the wire, ... and the campaign finance reform plan did nothing to change that. People still think of John McCain as the campaign finance reform candidate.

It's not the technical community screaming for this, it's the finance community. Executives responsible for costs are asking why they buy multiple applications and support agreements. This is particularly the case in mid-sized to large companies. In very small accounts the overall volume may not generate the same cost structure, but in larger and more distributed environments, there is a great opportunity to save in both operation and capital expenses.

It is wrong to use aviation taxes to finance a general tax cut,

It's always been a contentious issue, though both the Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Canada, for the record, have said they're against a common currency. I think over a very long time you'll see an amalgamation of currencies, but that's a very long way away.

It's kind of typical campaign finance in Florida. You find these wealthy special interests who are giving to committees and candidates, people with power to help them. . . . They're doing it as an investment, hoping for a return on their investment.

It's going to be a long process to get (the finance center) back up and running again. We are prepared to operate elsewhere for the first couple of months.

It's a very good job hunting season. The average starting salary for accounting and finance majors is around $35,000, for business and management majors it's $36,000 and computer sciences majors top the charts at $46,000 average starting salaries.

It's a very fluid situation. We are working on it both in the finance department, going through paperwork, in the police department, and at the investigation site. Accountants are now going through everything.

It's really funny, ... They were able to pass this law in a relatively short amount of time, but they weren't able to get school finance done.

It's our trading partners that pay for this. This has got to turn around. The question is, 'How much longer will foreigners finance this deficit?' This is the one big problem, really the only problem.

Despite cheap-shot attempts to suggest he is not supportive of campaign finance legislation, the fact is that Al Gore was there for reform from the time of McCain-Feingold and before, every single time.

The number one lobby that opposes campaign finance reform in the United States is the National Association of Broadcasters.

Even when we stress test the model with slower inventory turns and faster payables turns, or with significantly lighter revenue, we still come out with more than $500 million in cash at the end of the March quarters in both 2001 and 2002.

The board of finance is continuing its discussion about the budget that is going forward on April 10 and 11.

The Awful Truth. We actually left the country and went to Great Britain and got Channel Four over there to produce and finance this show.

It's an excellent job market for college graduates this year and although it seems to be slowing somewhat, we are still seeing an increase of about 40 percent over last year in the number of job offers being made. We are seeing great offers in what you'd consider hot majors, computer fields and information sciences, along with accounting, finance and business areas. But oddly enough you are also seeing strong growth in education, since there's a shortage of qualified teachers to replace those who are retiring.

It's great that Green is calling for spending limits. He ought to go a step further and call for campaign finance reform.

It's difficult to measure this offer as little is known about how the bidder would finance the transaction. While our initial feeling is to ignore the offer, it is academically possible that the bidder could receive funding, making this offer real.

I've done it before, ... It's an open question on how to finance my race if I run.

no longer participate in the charade taking place at Mercury Finance.

The world must help us, and the world must help us finance city management,

They want to cut taxes but they don't want to finance public education in any way. So what are they for? ... And that will come out in the elections this time.

They would provide a significant amount of the local (funding) match that could alleviate the need for a local tax increase to help finance the system.

The new IFC standards are stronger, better, and more comprehensive than those of any other international finance institution working with the private sector. We aim, with these new policies, to increase the development impact of projects in which we invest. We also seek to give companies operating projects in emerging markets the capacity to manage fully their environmental and social risks and to compete better in a global economy.

The newest battlefield in the fight to protect the First Amendment is the Internet, ... The Internet is the new town square, and campaign finance regulations are not appropriate there.

After two decades of personal finance reporting, I've heard every excuse in the book for not saving money. That said, none of them really hold up - at least over the long term.

Art's experience in operational planning, budgeting and finance will be of immense help to us in achieving the operational and financial improvements that we need to make.

Any bad trade balance figures could raise speculation that the trade imbalance will be discussed at the forthcoming meeting of G-8 finance ministers.

Any analysis of the demographics of emerging markets tells you that consumer finance is going to be an important part, and a rapidly growing part, of the financial-services spectrum for a long time to come,

Anytime you deal with school finance, there's a possibility districts will have to make tough financial decisions.

The intent is to create a world-class finance organization around these activities.

The Joint Finance Appropriation Committee for the state of Idaho considered a governor's request for $107,000 which would have funded two positions within a newly created office for Native Americans in the State Department of Education. What those people would do is coordinate educational activities for Indian students in Idaho, and hopefully assist in addressing some of the issues in regards to our students.

The larger banks are seeing a lot of market share in this area, but the larger credit unions and the ones being run by ex-bankers are setting up arrangements where a non-member can finance a car right at the dealership just by signing up to be a member.

The ministry of finance is clearly prepared to sacrifice one year's growth in order to be able to begin to reconstruct the budget -- and cut the budget deficit..

The mining companies in Zimbabwe are not large enough to expand production facilities or finance green-field projects from their cash-flows.

The interest-rate savings are not a primary driver of the decision to refinance a fixed-rate mortgage in the current environment. Now, the dominant refinance borrower is looking at the best way to consolidate debt or finance a big project such as a home improvement. And we also have borrowers who took out adjustable-rate mortgages in recent years that are scheduled to have their payment reset this year that may be looking at the option to refinance into a fixed-rate product or into another adjustable-rate mortgage.

The congressman is abiding by the campaign-finance laws.

I kept at it. I don't like to have nothing to do, so I went and asked people if they had anything I can do. I would learn different things. It's been a good career. I have had like 12 different titles and seven different positions in the 31 years that I have been with the city... Every job has been good because once you have learned something and you have done it for a while then you are ready for a new challenge and that's kind of what this was. Finance Director has been a good challenge for me and I've learned a lot. I did not know a lot about it when I got the job. It's kind of the way it was in just about everything. It's kind of trial and error and you learn. You learn from your mistakes and go on. It's been great though.

I know who the people are who come to my shows and buy my records now. It's always a good thing to think of those faces when I'm picking songs for a show or an album. I really do want to please them, these wonderful people who finance our 'dream.' In that way it can be a good thing, all this attention. You know your fans better.

I liked finance a lot, working on some important problems in dealing with senior business people in finance, and I concluded that it made sense to get an MBA if I wanted to pursue this career.

I hope the finance minister allows our mutual funds to invest in any actively traded listed foreign company. Easing the regulation will offer mutual funds the opportunity to explore companies overseas, also giving the investors more variety.

I'm afraid we shall very soon be coming back with an appeal for much larger sums to finance actual relief operations.

In his role as CFO, Mark helped manage Noble's investment platforms representing capital of over $1 billion. His background in investment analysis and public and private finance will allow our development division to approach opportunities with well-rounded core competencies.

India is very good on transparency. It has always had a very strong governmental reporting of the economic facts of the Indian economy. We are quite assured that the Indian Finance Ministry and Reserve Bank is dedicated to good reporting to the international markets.

Increasing pressure from the Finance Ministry helped bonds to gain. Bonds had a gradual decline over the past weeks and yields came to a level where they look attractive.

Increasing pressure from the Finance Ministry and the auction result for 30-year debt fueled the market recovery. Yields were approaching an attractive level to buy for investors.

In an attempt to bring industrial harmony and peace, the Ministry of Finance was persuaded that it was possible without disrupting the news to our creditors to advance the $1,300 and the Prime Minister agreed,

If US per capita income continues to grow at a rate of 1.5 percent a year, the country will have plenty of money to finance comfortable retirements and high-quality healthcare for all citizens, including those at the bottom of the wage ladder.

If you're making fewer things, then you need fewer people to transport them, and fewer people to finance them, and fewer people to distribute them down the line. So it's important, and it's key to the current state of the economy.

If you go back to the time of J.P. Morgan, the world of high finance was completely wholesale. The prestigious investment banks on Wall Street appealed exclusively to large corporations, governments, and to extremely wealthy individuals.

In the weeks ahead you will be hearing from the minister of finance in relation to plans we have especially, as winter approaches in relation to energy costs generally.

In the end, we can work this out. It is $200 billion in spending for a $12 trillion economy, ... It's just a matter of how we finance it, not whether or not we can afford to do it.

Instead we have a moderate January -- the weather is unbelievably nice, 15 to 20 degrees above normal -- that certainly factors into personal finance because people weren't going to be hit as hard. That gives people a positive outlook and makes people feel better about what is going on.

In our experience at Safeway, we're confident that we can actually improve the quality of health care while taking costs down and using the savings to help finance coverage of low-income people who are clearly going to need help to pay for insurance.

In October 2004 there was a discussion about a potential offer, but it was only broad brush because the finance wasn't available.

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

I really don't have much clue as to what goes on. But I do know that they look out for our well-being. They have meetings throughout the season just to educate us on finance and ways to protect ourselves from predators ? people out to get our money.

I refuse to have my best efforts - already heavily filtered in advance and subjected to the constraints of finance and time - rejected by any criteria whatsoever.

I have to say that the Town Council and the Board of Finance have been very consistent in giving us a three to four percent increase. This proposed budget is very lean even though we are asking for a seven percent increase.

I probably don't make as much money as people think I make. I make more than the usual medium household. I'm one of the few middle class actors out there. The microcosm of Hollywood reflects the macrocosm of international finance.

Invoice on some cars is a great price. But if you are not negotiating a very good finance price or a good price on your trade-in, it may be a terrible deal." ()

Intuit is defining and leading the new world of e-finance -- and that strategy is paying off.

If you're trying to finance capital spending, you do that off saving.

In New York's 'anything goes' system of campaign finance, it fits right in. It shouldn't be allowed. It should be used for campaigns of the candidates.

In abandoning the understanding that things - services, goods, wars, and houses - have costs, we risk becoming infantilised, incapable of making decisions about government or finance, and perhaps above all about the environment, the wellbeing of the planet upon which we depend and which our children will inherit from us.

It helps with film project development, finance across boundaries and takes advantage of film makers' skills and infrastructure in both countries.