The point of depicting opportunity as largesse is that only by submitting to a Sino-centric world can one secure such largesse for oneself.
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Worryingly, Mrs Clinton makes no mention of curtailing the largesse.
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It has extended its largesse to a new field: economics.
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Home state senator Kamala Harris also benefited from Hollywood's largesse.
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Beijing's largesse to Africa has sometimes seemed limitless (see chart).
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Both parties were, for example, recipients of the UAE's largesse.
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Younger donors, especially, are becoming more strategic with their largesse.
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These days, experimental art often views corporate largesse as necessary.
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Beyond the initial flurry of deals, CEFC's largesse never materialised.
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But largesse is not a negotiation, nor is it altruistic.
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Times have changed from the largesse of the Chavez era.
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But Trump's largesse has also been a liability as a politician.
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But the real issue is whether Italy can risk such largesse.
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Silicon Valley first bloomed, in large part, because of government largesse.
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Silicon Valley companies have been recipients of Saudi largesse as well.
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Many of the top contractors are heavily dependent on taxpayer largesse.
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But that misses the appeal for many recipients of Chinese largesse.
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Such foundations are also known to benefit from largesse from abroad.
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And there is more to German benefits from the ECB's largesse.
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This explosion of artistic activity is not ignited by state largesse.
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Such largesse, without punishing existing shareholders, may be hard to match.
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The new beneficiaries treat their newfound largesse as an eternal entitlement.
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Greece and Portugal have been other big beneficiaries of Chinese largesse.
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Trump also is sharing some of his largesse with other Republicans.
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Companies used their newfound largesse to buy back shares of their stock.
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Not all policymakers are happy with the notion of more ECB largesse.
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Bolder versions of the strategy make the central bank's largesse more explicit.
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The largesse disappeared entirely in 2006 and its economy has suffered since.
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Mr Bollea is one of several beneficiaries of Mr Thiel's legal largesse.
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Spreading out the government largesse only promotes political, and not societal, goals.
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In fact, the biggest beneficiary of Starbucks's largesse was Arizona State University.
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They are not used as figures to be saved by American largesse.
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While established religious leaders benefited from government largesse, local youth are not.
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All else equal, such largesse should indeed give the economy some temporary vim.
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So is there an end in sight for all this late-stage largesse?
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If the costs ran wild, even Dubai, with its famed largesse, would baulk.
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Vichai, 60, showed a knack for winning people over with charm and largesse.
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Such largesse is, in effect, fiscal policy financed by money instead of bonds.
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Such largesse would likely run counter to Ukraine's reform commitments to foreign donors.
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This seems to have constrained Mr Trump's largesse to Mr Erdogan a bit.
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For the bigger streaming services, that may not matter; they trade in largesse.
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Jobs, by the way, was hardly immune to the lure of government largesse.
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There is a false assumption that private efforts will never match government largesse.
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He blames the largesse of the seven-course spread on his Italian DNA.
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Both DoorDash and Uber have been beneficiaries of the Vision Fund&aposs largesse.
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But in recent weeks, several of them have been hinting at reducing their largesse.
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Today, this fusion of financial profligacy and military industrial largesse often manifests itself overtly.
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"We're a community of makers who already exist in the digital space," Largesse said.
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Like researchers and NGOs, they depend fundamentally on the largesse of the tech companies.
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Tuaregs had benefited from his largesse: his portrait still hangs in houses across Agadez.
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The clout that countries wield with economic largesse is sometimes described as "hard power".
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Meanwhile, everyone assumes Chinese cash is lining politicians' pockets and paying for political largesse.
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He says profits are important and dismisses handouts to small businesses as "government largesse".
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But at least in those cases, all students get to benefit from the largesse.
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Many of those who did vote feared losing government largesse if they did not.
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They can be expected to protest as the government tries to end the largesse.
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He would need to seek parliamentary approval for such largesse at a later date.
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The result is government largesse through either direct payment (contracts, etc.) or favorable regulations.
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But when it comes to the holidays, political views don't result in spending largesse.
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He also comes from industries — real estate and construction — that depend on government largesse.
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Doctors are not normally perceived as suffering financially without extra largesse from their patients.
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A day later, she again refused to say whether Trump knew about Cohen's largesse.
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From a venture's standpoint, such unprecedented largesse reflects both an opportunity and a threat.
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Renewables are coming of age and no longer stand or fall on government largesse.
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Dedicate your funding largesse to advancing national needs like universal, high-quality child care.
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In the meantime, corporate bond investors may be the real beneficiaries of the ECB's largesse.
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Yet on the matter of billionaires supposedly sponging off taxpayer largesse, they are completely simpatico.
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For one thing, SpaceX can offer such a trip only thanks to NASA's previous largesse.
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Only breweries and mobile-phone companies, with their big marketing budgets, can match politicians' largesse.
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The oil boom, which paid for Chávez's largesse, ended soon after he died in 2013.
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The biggest reason the government has stayed current so far is largesse from foreign patrons.
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But in a time of austerity, the purveyors of Rome's largesse have little to offer.
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Have you really picked the crew that's gonna be perpetuating the largesse and the information?
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Yet in Albania and elsewhere, Muslim communities that benefit from Turkish largesse still face pressure.
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Out of power, Democrats need the largesse of ideologues, which Pelosi was able to provide.
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Howard, which competes against these institutions for students, cannot come anywhere close to such largesse.
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Today's billionaire kings have a divine right to their largesse because the meritocracy said so.
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The Democratic Party must return Planned Parenthood's political largesse and turn off the taxpayer spigot.
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That is uncomfortable for those reliant on U.S. largesse, but should be cheered by Americans.
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And the network sparked by its largesse continued fighting for inaction throughout the Bush years.
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Even Google, for all its innovation-minded largesse, shies away from writing such big checks.
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By his back-of-the-napkin calculation, there's something like $25 billion in largesse involved.
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Fortunately, the theory that tax cuts "starve the beast" of government largesse is empirically unfounded.
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Most notably missing is a list of promising high-tech candidates for the pot's largesse.
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For restaurant owners, Grubhub's faux largesse was a gut punch at the worst possible time.
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India has contributed to various development projects, but cannot match the scale of China's largesse.
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This made possible both a history of philanthropy and promiscuous nondeductible one-to-one largesse.
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Most details of the aid programme are kept secret, perhaps because the largesse is unpopular domestically.
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Shareholders can only hope the largesse they are ultimately paying for will bring them dividends, too.
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Ms Vestager has given ground with a package to "modernise" how the EU evaluates such largesse.
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It faces obstacles in the kingdom's conservative religious establishment and a population used to government largesse.
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The Ethiopian regime has long been a beneficiary of U.S. aid largesse for its counterterrorism cooperation.
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Partly because of such largesse, the budget deficit was a worrying 5.4% of GDP last year.
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Unlike ISIS, the Taliban has been the recipient of largesse from donors such as Saudi Arabia.
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Yet he also claims, impossibly, that this largesse would not cause the national debt to rise.
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Larger state firms are expanding, likely thanks to Beijing's largesse, but smaller manufacturers continue to struggle.
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Progressives concentrate on these same constituencies, but all they are capable of offering is government largesse.
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This largesse will aid charity causes that include providing for the children of slain FBI Agents.
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Yet despite Ayn Randian visions of greatness, the two companies were nurtured by federal-government largesse.
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Washington and New Delhi worry that all this largesse will bring Pakistan firmly into China's orbit.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Tales of Chinese tourist largesse providing a big boost to destination economies are legend.
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Despite the largesse, there are concerns that millions of people will still fall through the cracks.
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Like many Saudis of his generation, he benefited from royal largesse with an overseas university education.
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Most of the recipients of this government largesse are not teachers but consultants, contractors, and administrators.
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With Saudi and Qatari largesse, he funnelled intelligence, weapons and cash to favoured rebels in Syria's south.
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China is not used to recipients of its largesse challenging the terms on which it is offered.
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Such largesse may test the deficit limit of 3% set by the EU's stability and growth pact.
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It is also handy for spreading largesse among ordinary Malays—including helping devout Muslims make the haj.
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Some Palestinians fear that this American largesse could depend on Jordan eventually revoking their status as refugees.
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The coalition's largesse, notably income support for the poor and unemployed, was intended to provide a boost.
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Without Venezuela's largesse, Mr Ortega can no longer maintain the public spending that kept dissent at bay.
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And Mexico needs to show this largesse while retaining focus on the longer-term goal: economic development.
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The student wonders if the stranger's largesse might just be motivated by the diplomatic career he plans.
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Data on the largesse of developing countries, however, are often lacking (and therefore missing from our chart).
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But it will also add pressure on the ECB to pull back on some of its largesse.
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Abubakar is thought to be betting that Buhari's largesse may not be enough to win the region.
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Seeing the largesse from Venezuela diminishing and, at times, disappearing, Cuba needed another source of hard currency.
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This boosts the case for buying Italian, Spanish and Portuguese debt, seen as beneficiaries of ECB largesse.
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The euro zone's third-largest economy is seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse.
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What Anna Petrusich aptly coins a "brainy largesse" begins to resemble an intellectual pursuit for the listener.
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Trump refused to rule out the possibility that his family business could receive some of the largesse.
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One particularly muscular group ahead of November is Acronym, and that's thanks in part to tech's largesse.
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I loved how LARGESSE fit into ATHLEISURE and CHEAP SEATS in this corner, I cannot help it.
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I loved how LARGESSE fit into ATHLEISURE and CHEAP SEATS in this corner, I cannot help it.
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It is not granted from the top down, or depend on the largesse of the rich or powerful.
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They are often forced to live on a small stipend or depend on the largesse of the parish.
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Trolls have accused Lee of taking advantage of the largesse of the state, which assists defectors with resettlement.
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Along with art and high end real estate, tech ventures have been the primary recipient of China's largesse.
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Its current-account deficit will swell, as its economy, stimulated by government largesse, sucks in imports from abroad.
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Usually, politicians would be deterred from such largesse by bond-market vigilantes, who would make wild borrowing unaffordable.
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That's mostly due to its efforts to claim territory in disputed waters, its economic prowess, and military largesse.
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Meredith's deal is backed in part by the Koch brothers, whose largesse funds a raft of conservative organisations.
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Wielding oil-funded state largesse, Kuwait has occasionally paid off citizens' personal loans in response to popular pressure.
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Lower-rated Southern European countries, seen as the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, underperformed, rising 2-4 bps.
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Government largesse was once again channeled back down the tried-and-trusted pathways of infrastructure and property construction.
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Gulf rulers fear that cutting spending would alter the social contract in which largesse buys their people's quiescence.
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The propriety of such largesse, both for the CIA and its beneficiaries, has been hotly debated ever since.
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Though the feelings expressed are sometimes dark and complicated, they're always framed in a high-stakes pop largesse.
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In the 2016 Budget passed down Tuesday, fintech startups were among the most prominent beneficiaries of federal largesse.
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He used Bush's campaign largesse against him, saying that he was bought and paid for by corporate interests.
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But if it accepts the tech industry's largesse, it will do so at the expense of vulnerable people.
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But their enforced largesse could well find them sharing such assistance with tenants who are far from needy.
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Nio and Xpeng, WM's venture-capital-backed competitors, have not yet benefited from quite this level of largesse.
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Why should the rest of the nation pay for the mismanagement and largesse of state and local governments?
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Furthermore, Bundy's beloved ranching, mining, and logging industries have been some of the biggest beneficiaries of government largesse.
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The firm's largesse has encouraged investors to hold shares despite concerns that the memory business may be peaking.
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It is impossible to measure the total largesse of rivers of corporate political giving intended to influence elections.
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The largesse of wildlife available in Africa is largely limited to that continent, but what if it wasn't?
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Ecuador's next president will not be able to afford Mr Correa's largesse and may not exercise his unchecked power.
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Their largesse raised questions among some French people over whether they had hidden motives such as seeking tax breaks.
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If today's asset prices have been propped up by central-bank largesse, its end could prompt a big correction.
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Developer interest and financial largesse don't equal consumer interest, though, and on that standpoint, I just don't see it.
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Cornwall is still one of the poorest parts of the country, and so it benefits from largesse from Brussels.
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Bongo, 57, also benefits from being the incumbent in a country with a patronage system lubricated by oil largesse.
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Largesse only makes sense when it is constantly returned, when it is part of a great wheel of motion.
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The largesse offered to those making the switch to Paris has not gone down well with some local firms.
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Their voters don't feel the bite and the politicians get good publicity by spreading largesse using someone else's money.
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After he was pushed out of Congress, though, his largesse became a more direct exchange of money for influence.
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If you take Trump at his word, he is simply trying to keep the allies from abusing America's largesse.
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But diesel scandals are just one of the problems challenging automakers and the legendary largesse of their trade shows.
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Bloomberg's largesse afforded above-market salaries for organizers and campaign workers but also luxurious buffet spreads for curious voters.
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It brushed past the glass ceilings, closed doors and exclusions of the Valley to tap into its lobbying largesse.
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It brushed past the glass ceilings, closed doors and exclusions of the Valley to tap into its lobbying largesse.
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Evidently, Mulvaney knew well how to play the game, as he was showered with largesse from the financial industry.
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Thus far, lawmakers have been receptive to industry's account of Free File, no doubt persuaded by FFA companies' largesse.
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Mr Pritzker's largesse helped Democrats reach beyond urban strongholds to commuter suburbs such as Naperville, an hour's drive from Chicago.
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Southern European debt markets - considered beneficiaries of ECB largesse - outperformed, dropping 5 to 7 basis points on the inflation data .
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Mr Hamon, who was briefly education minister in 2014, stirred up voters in recent weeks with promises of public largesse.
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In the past decade the brothers have bankrolled 1,829 candidates; their largesse helped elect a third of the current congress.
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The firm has paid out over $150bn in dividends since 2000, but its performance can no longer sustain such largesse.
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What Time needs from its latest owners, besides their largesse, is a vision that can sustain it as a business.
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That the beneficiaries of this largesse are companies making, in the words of Mr McDonnell, "huge profits", explains the rest.
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PJM, a north-eastern grid operator that could benefit from Mr Perry's largesse, says his plan is a bad idea.
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They have almost always succeeded by the sweat of their brow rather than the largesse of activists or government programmes.
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The exchange illustrated the Democrats' annoying tendency to draw moral distinctions between firms deserving and ill-deserving of state largesse.
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ObamaCare isn't failing because the government has been stingy with corporate handouts; its largesse, in fact, has transgressed legal bounds.
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So long as low- and middle-income taxpayers are also better off, who cares about the largesse at the top?
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Despite this corporate largesse, Huang is quick to point out that he's quite aware that he's not running a charity.
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Despite such largesse and a resulting rise in the profitability of such firms, however, their stock valuations have steeply fallen.
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They denounce Brussels as an intrusive force, a threat to their national sovereignty, even as they eagerly accept its largesse.
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The design, which has been fueled by his economic largesse and perceived support from the Trump White House, is fading.
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Ahead of the vote, ruling party officials urged voters to be "grateful" for government largesse dispensed via the fatherland cards.
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Low-rated Southern European government bonds, seen as more dependent on ECB largesse, outperformed, with yields lower 3-4 bps.
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" Finally, she bemoans the suggestion that art "should reflect the values of the corporate entities whose largesse it depends on.
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During an oil-price boom that began in 20093, the distribution of state largesse to key constituencies went into overdrive.
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Stevens's accounts of bygone media largesse seem less like dispatches from a different era than from a different planet entirely.
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In fact, while markets will be happy to see growth recover, they seem to prefer wallowing in central bank largesse.
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Le Maire, sensitive to German concerns about France's fiscal largesse, said Paris would meet European commitments to reduce its public debt.
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To pay for this largesse the government is borrowing money from the central bank that it is unlikely to pay back.
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But development needs capital, and the Philippines has been excluded from recent Chinese largesse showered around the rest of the region.
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Mr Sharif had been the beneficiary of the army's largesse in 1990, when he began his first stint as prime minister.
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A cocktail of expensive stockmarkets, a maturing business cycle and fiscal largesse would test the mettle of the most experienced policymakers.
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The prospect of widespread central bank largesse helped take the sting out of a downgrade to the IMF's global growth forecasts.
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German official are nonetheless concerned by the ECB's loose monetary policy and have been urging it to roll back the largesse.
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And Putin, by building loyalty among the leaders of a cherished institution, has arguably been the greatest beneficiary of this largesse.
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Yes, we need to fix budgetary imbalance for its own sake, but the problems with government largesse go so much further.
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And in a country where government is still primarily a source of largesse, the costs of losing are far too high.
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Adelson's largesse is both a boost to the endangered Republican majority and further evidence of their perilous position heading into November.
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Valero services which was the recipient of $22019 billion in taxpayer largesse, ponied up about $2 million...you get the picture.
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Cohen's natural inclination is toward a loquacious, storytelling largesse, but each of his sentences is also a micro-adventure in abundance.
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The world's biggest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia has implemented some austerity measures to wean its citizens off decades of government largesse.
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But should the recipient of Weinstein's largesse be obliged to share her story in order to not be considered an enabler?
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" The stories in "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" are not as cohesive or as plangent as those in "Jesus' Son.
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People like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz are undergirding the Democratic Party with their largesse.
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Authoritarians also dispense largesse, but they do it by their own whims, rather than pursuant to any system or legal rule.
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Journalist Blake Zeff has a sharp Twitter thread showing how Bloomberg has used his largesse to quiet criticism and win allies.
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In other words, if baseline growth was 3 percent, the growth rate accounting for debt largesse will be just 0.7 percent.
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This might include Beijing's largesse in the form of development assistance and grants or an immediate increase in Chinese tourist numbers.
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Liberal thought is that work, when it comes to a quid-pro-quo for government largesse, is a four-letter word.
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Prosecutors claimed that Melgen, in return for his largesse, got help from Menendez in obtaining visas for girlfriends of the doctor.
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There is no limit to their largesse or to their desire to determine how we other Americans should live our lives.
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It is true that, as development economists have argued for years, the ideal recipients of foreign largesse are poor, well-governed countries.
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But the success of the Great Slate has come as a surprise to the candidates on the receiving end of the largesse.
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"They usually just throw money at issues and the beneficiaries of that largesse become very, very wealthy and that's it," he said.
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While politics and political largesse lays the groundwork for the intelligent and innovative citizen, it is that citizen who moves things forward.
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More than money is at stake: this largesse has disguised how far the economy is chronically unproductive and dependent on foreign labour.
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Harking back nostalgically to the Silk Road, it envisages a web of bilateral agreements between China and the beneficiaries of its largesse.
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Even without any new acts of massive government largesse, federal deficits are projected to annually exceed $1 trillion for the foreseeable future.
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The evidence also shows that voters reward officials for showering their regions with federal largesse, though their support does not come cheap.
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Scout, Ms. Pelosi explained, has met more presidential candidates than a voter in caucus-central Des Moines, thanks to his owner's largesse.
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Italian, Portuguese and Spanish bonds - seen as the biggest beneficiaries of the ECB's largesse - saw their yields fall 4-10 basis points.
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"The Largesse of the Sea Maiden," Johnson's new and presumably final collection — he died from liver cancer in May — is no outlier.
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The federal largesse will aid hospitals, unemployed workers and businesses, welcome relief for hot spots such as New York and New Orleans.
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I plan to read the great Denis Johnson's final book, the story collection on my nightstand, "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden."
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, McConnell is one of the top beneficiaries of Big Pharma's largesse, receiving $479,000 in contributions over the past five years.
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Thanks to Adelson's largesse, the Senate Leadership Fund nearly tripled the August fundraising of its equivalent super PAC on the Democratic side.
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As Sara Crewe would call it: "largesse," the kind that rationalized the Commonwealth extending the "gift" of English to its former colonies.
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They have been more aggressive recently in attacking Bloomberg's largesse and the influence of big donors in the Buttigieg and Biden campaigns.
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Massive in a stylish navy suit, hair swept back as though by sheer existential momentum, he was a picture of swaggering largesse.
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He is also preparing to raise another $100 billion Vision Fund, meaning that there is no end in sight for SoftBank's largesse.
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But this time, the Kobach campaign may benefit from the largesse of conservative outside groups, particularly the fiscally-focused Club for Growth.
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What policy to take on China has bedeviled EU leaders, with some member states, particularly NATO member Italy, happily embracing Beijing's largesse.
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The complaint is more vague about what Claiborne, an office management specialist, allegedly provided to the Chinese in exchange for the largesse.
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I think the new fullness with which you're kind of viewing human experience really expresses itself in the musical largesse of it.
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The result is that anti-government rhetoric can come out of the same person who is the beneficiary of tremendous government largesse.
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"President-elect Trump is using his largesse as President-elect to enhance his existing business relationships," political law attorney Ken Gross told CNN.
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But thanks to China's largesse they are now on track to reach the same level of debt that they had before the crisis.
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Italian debt, seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, outperformed, with 10-year yields dropping nearly 4 bps to 2.098%.
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Yet as Sir Michael Wilshaw, a former chief inspector of schools, has noted, England's schools have enjoyed at least 33 years of "largesse".
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The federal government's largesse towards business began in the latter half of the 19th century with the railways, which cut across state boundaries.
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In the downtime between my two main teams playing, I distribute the largesse of my support across all of Africa's fleet-footed representatives.
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Jordan can no longer count on Gulf largesse, like a $103bn grant offered in the first days of the Arab Spring in 2011.
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Italian debt, seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, outperformed, with 10-year yields dropping nearly 4 bps to 2.097%.
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The prospect of wide scale central bank largesse helped take the sting out of the IMF's latest downgrade to its global growth forecasts.
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The U.S. National Slavery Museum has benefited from his generosity and largesse, as has St. Frances Academy in Baltimore, and High Point University.
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That Amazon felt comfortable enough to flip the script and instead have cities bid for the largesse of a corporation was galling enough.
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The prospect of wide-scale central bank largesse helped take the sting out of the IMF's latest downgrade to its global growth forecasts.
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The prospect of widespread central bank largesse helped take the sting out of the International Monetary fund's downgrade of its global growth forecasts.
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The finance minister later told Doordarshan that the largesse was nothing to do with winning votes for Modi's nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Opposition to that largesse has made strange bedfellows out of New York City Democrats Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) and New York Gov.
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We are financing the largesse of our elected officials with borrowed dollars and handing an unaffordable IOU to our children and their children.
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Whenever I get back from another place, I'm always so struck by the largesse of the space—the sky somehow feels bigger there.
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Bloomberg has received a host of endorsements from black mayors and lawmakers, including those whose cities and jurisdictions have benefited from his largesse.
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Very few people today think it's morally better for hospitals and libraries to be provided through largesse from billionaires than through public funding.
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Despite such largesse, Afghanistan is required to sign up to a host of political, economic and social reforms in return for the money.
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This debt is generally seen as the biggest beneficiary of ECB largesse, and therefore most sensitive to any talk of monetary policy tightening.
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High tech is blind to the plight of the migrant worker and depends on the largesse of governments for programmers and outsourced data centers.
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How can Callisto truly protect its users from abusive members of the investment community when its own existence is dependent on that community's largesse?
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Lawmakers are in a perky mood for another reason: they get to influence where a separate, even juicier, dollop of official largesse ends up.
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But the largesse has dried up under Maduro, who has tried to compensate by giving top-ranking officers an even bigger slice of power.
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Lower-rated Southern European countries, seen as the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, have seen some of the outperformance of recent times lose steam.
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Urzua deeply cut back spending programs in a strategy aimed at cleaning out corruption and largesse with a new, more centralized model of assistance.
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The idea that Loria is about to cash in on taxpayer largesse is enough to leave Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez mighty steamed.
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In the U.S., politicians and the press often present the UN and its specialized agencies like UNESCO as a huge beneficiary of U.S. largesse.
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"The thanks and warm fuzzies we get from the recipient of our largesse is likely to make us feel good as well," she wrote.
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Yes, that is a Washington fan standing outside Dan Snyder's House of Unearned Largesse at Mountain Dew Pavilion, wearing a Robert Griffin III jersey.
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This has the effect of keeping out black families, who didn't benefit from decades of government largesse (like subsidized mortgages) available only to whites.
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One of the largest recipients of their largesse was Pete Sessions, a Republican representative in Texas who faced an uphill battle for re-election.
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The government's key policy challenge will be its ability to reduce the budget deficit in a country that has become accustomed to fiscal largesse.
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The first ripple lower coincided with a gathering storyline about inflation, rising rates and economic overheating from fiscal largesse hitting a fully employed economy.
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For 34 years Saleh ruled over one of the world's most heavily armed and tribal societies with expertly balanced doses of largesse and force.
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One surprising example of the prevalence of federal largesse is Apple, the ubiquitous poster child of high design, rebellious entrepreneurial spirit, and individual genius.
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But some countries, such as Sri Lanka, Djibouti and Mongolia, have found themselves weighed down by debt and ever more reliant on Beijing's largesse.
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Householder has repaid the largesse with stalwart support, sponsoring several power-plant bailout bills and jamming HB6 through a hastily called last-minute legislative session.
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Shieber wrote: That Amazon felt comfortable enough to flip the script and instead have cities bid for the largesse of a corporation was galling enough.
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While it's nearly impossible to, say, create a Spotlight team without the largesse of a benefactor, that hasn't stopped a number of sites from trying.
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Some forecasters fret that an end to the largesse, together with higher interest rates, may be sufficient to tip the country into recession by 2020.
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It would be better if donors scaled up their largesse gradually, channelled it through national coffers where possible and stuck around for the long run.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, given their largesse, hedge fund executives dominate the pool of major donors involved in this election cycle, which encompasses this year and last.
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In their brand-new home, Zsannett Koscis, 28, and her husband, Tomas, 31, dandle their infant son, Vencel, while praising the largesse of the government.
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Once seen by Australians as a symbol of Whitlam's largesse, it now stands for the spirit of cultural internationalism that he instilled in his country.
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The property market is being stimulated by renewed incentives in the form of lower deposit requirements and by a broader dose of central bank largesse.
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This has sparked a strong rally in European government bonds in recent days, particularly Southern European debt seen as the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse.
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Over time, the origins of a clan's largesse are largely forgotten, and we recall only the philanthropic legacy, prompted by the name on the building.
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Remember, all funds put into retirement savings are earnings, not gifts; they are the result of market forces and negotiation rather than largesse by employers.
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Fidel Castro had welcomed the Soviets and their subsidies with open arms, quickly turning Cuba into a puppet of the Kremlin, dependent on its largesse.
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Salema, a veteran journalist and lawyer, criticized alleged corruption and largesse among Nyusi and his family in his regular appearances on independent television station STV.
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The writer Denis Johnson died in May from liver cancer, a few weeks after finishing a short story collection, ''The Largesse of the Sea Maiden.
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The Middle East's arch-survivor once compared running Yemen to "dancing on the heads of snakes", ruling with expertly balanced doses of largesse and force.
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Since then, however, ties have frayed as the Saudis — already hobbled by dropping oil revenues — came to suspect that their largesse was being unwisely spent.
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It also positions the federal government as a savior of victims, who should be thankful for U.S. aid that is given a matter of largesse.
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Back in 2001 and 2003, Republicans could sprinkle their tax-cut largesse broadly, and they made no pretense of paying for it in the near term.
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Chinese airlines are also now making the most of their location, and the largesse of the state, to offer connections to destinations beyond their home market.
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Since this market is so competitive, no one can risk offending a customer for fear of social media reprisal—and you're the recipient of that largesse.
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In exchange for all this largesse, donors want the beneficiaries to do more for the refugees they host, in particular by opening up their labour markets.
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Any institution which has been singled out for too much official favour is likely to lose credibility; government largesse can easily be a kiss of death.
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The rentier model, whereby the Al Sauds distributed largesse and do-nothing public jobs in return for obedience, was under strain even when oil was booming.
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The distribution of largesse to coincide with changes in the succession is common in monarchical systems to cement loyalty to the ruler and the chosen heir.
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Michael Bloomberg, despite being in the race for only three months, quickly accrued dozens of endorsements, mostly from mayors who had benefited from his financial largesse.
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If the plutocrats are looking to thank someone for this new wave of taxpayer-funded largesse, they should start with the celebrated liberal economist Paul Krugman.
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If that largesse diminishes, anti-EU sentiment could increase, said Jaksity, one of Hungary's most influential economists and a former chairman of the Budapest Stock Exchange.
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"The stories in 'The Largesse of the Sea Maiden' are not as cohesive or as plangent as those in 'Jesus' Son,'" our critic Dwight Garner writes.
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Continued central bank largesse and a surprisingly rosy economic backdrop, particularly in Europe, anchored market volatility, which provided the springboard for the global and cross-asset rally.
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An UMNO leader needs to distribute largesse to guarantee chiefs' support and they, in turn, operate an affirmative action plan for ethnic Malays first introduced in 22.
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Next to halls named after dead and gone thinkers and makers was the Gates building, built with the largesse of the biggest tech maker in recent history.
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Mr Kumagai insists all this largesse has merely boosted the share of the town's ¥4bn annual budget devoted to raising the fertility rate from 2% to 3%.
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The search for Trump's charitable largesse is far from conclusive given his tax returns remain unreleased, but the results so far suggest he has overstated his magnanimity.
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Military and Security Largesse One area of the budget in which the president does not show any sign of fiscal responsibility is in military and security spending.
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Mr Rubio, whose promise of a 35% top rate seems timid by comparison, serves up largesse elsewhere by promising to abolish levies on capital gains and dividends.
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A firm which earned over $100 billion in 2015 and has shareholders content to see more or less nothing by way of profits can afford such largesse.
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Its dominance of the international cocaine trade began with Guzman's implementation of a more horizontal leadership structure, his propensity for violence and largesse toward corrupt public officials.
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This has sparked a strong rally in European government bonds in recent days, particularly in southern European debt markets seen as the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse.
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Moreover, we know it is better to live in a world in which needy people, including children, do not depend upon individual largesse for their basic welfare.
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Gudkov says low turnout will play into the Kremlin's hands because it can rely on state workers, whose livelihoods depend on its largesse, delivering a sizeable vote.
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Trump has long criticized NATO for failing to spend what he considers a fair amount on collective defense, claiming the Europeans have taken advantage of America's largesse.
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Companies that boast a faster pace of growth, such as like the big U.S. tech names have been favored during the past decade of central bank largesse.
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And in a world where $100 a barrel for oil won't be seen again any time soon, Saudi Arabia simply can't afford this kind of largesse anymore.
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However, a re-acceleration of the "mini cycle" in the U.S. economy and central bank "largesse" mean the outlook for the first half of 2020 is positive.
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"Furthermore, there is a risk that Congress' new-found largesse is sowing the seeds of the next fiscal crisis when a recession inevitably hits," the analysts added.
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It appears that the allied armed forces are the main beneficiaries for now, but where there is security and U.S. government largesse and encouragement, American businesses follow.
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In fact, according to a BuzzFeed News review of Edge's IRS filings, the nonprofit's full range of exclusive events would not have been possible without Epstein's largesse.
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It should block efforts to channel reconstruction assistance through the Assad government, and especially to the Iranian and Hezbollah companies that seek to benefit from international largesse.
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In fact, the largesse that was the Sandy supplemental — again, only about half of which was dedicated hurricane relief spending — dwarfed the budgets of many federal agencies.
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Italian debt, seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, outperformed, with 10-year yields dropping 6 bps to 2.07%, its lowest in a week.
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Courtesy of Oxford University Press Yet these state and local employees are often supported by federal largesse or mandated by federal requirements — and they are not alone.
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Investor bets on Trump's fiscal largesse and tax cuts reflating the U.S. economy have put a rocket under Wall Street, especially bank stocks, and Europe has benefited too.
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Yet his party lost the 2002 election to the charismatic Lula da Silva, who campaigned on a platform of largesse for the lower class and workers in general.
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Another recipient of Unaoil's largesse was Dhia Jaffar Al Mousawi—known as Lighthouse in internal emails—who served as an oil adviser to several prime ministers, including Maliki.
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Its dominance in the international cocaine trade began with his implementation of a more horizontal leadership structure, his alleged propensity for violence and largesse toward corrupt public officials.
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Then an old mentor—a schlump named Fuches, played with comic largesse by Stephen Root—convinces him that he might want to work for him as an assassin.
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Trump's campaign has depended more on the largesse of the candidate himself than on donors, though the Republican has started more fundraising in earnest since securing the nomination.
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Plus, as Brazile notes in her article, Sanders' entire strategy was to run from the outside, drawing the party to him and not benefiting from the its largesse.
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Fendi has done much the same, albeit on a larger scale of largesse, lavishing in the region of $2.4 million to restore the Trevi to its former glory.
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This contravenes a new law designed to address the widespread practice of populist candidates winning over poor voters through largesse, rather than their policy proposals or inspirational leadership.
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By Wednesday, the president was saying Santa Rosa had begun to reject the gang's largesse, which locals said they heard included payments of 1,000 pesos ($52) or more.
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Nobody wants to guillotine Schultz; we just want to tax the largesse that has been bestowed upon him, much of it because of tax breaks and policy incentives.
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However, Beijing's unusual largesse has also fueled suspicions in the United States and India that Gwadar is part of China's future geostrategic plans to challenge U.S. naval dominance.
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If leaders position themselves to personally profit from public office and to share the public largesse with friends and allies, then theft is a central principle of politics.
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Advertising professionals can make anyone seem exciting and compelling; the normally staid Bloomberg will have to prove he's got some persuasive powers beyond the largesse of his checkbook.
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The largesse from EU funds and the neoliberal transitions to market economies has gone disproportionately to urban centers, the highly educated and mobile, western regions, and younger people.
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With the American troop presence too small to secure the country, Karzai used foreign largesse to empower local strongmen, whose behavior led to the return of the Taliban.
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Terrafugia will also benefit from Geely's largesse, which was able to transform Volvo from a distressed property purchased from Ford in 2010 to one of the world's leading automakers.
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Far from harming the church, he thinks this could force Orthodox Christians, clergy and laity, to find their own feet, rely less on state largesse and become more independent.
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Euro zone bond yields dropped across the board, with Italian, Portuguese and Spanish bonds — seen as the biggest beneficiaries of the ECB's largesse — proving particularly strong on the day.
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But investors' addiction to central bank largesse has many believing that the end of a decade-long bull run — and the longest economic expansion on record — will be postponed.
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Italian debt outperformed, with yields dropping 12-15 bps across the curve; the euro zone's third-largest economy is seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse.
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This practice of 'gift-giving' does not necessarily guarantee victory, but it signals a candidate's largesse and is widely accepted as the cost of doing business in Indian elections.
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Low-rated Spanish, Italian and Portuguese government bonds, seen as the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, slightly outperformed the rest of the market with yields lower 2-3 bps.
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If recent history in the United States is anything to go by, some companies could take advantage of the ECB's largesse to buy back shares or take over rivals.
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Critics said the changes would only hurt everyday Cubans who work in the private sector and depend on the largesse of American visitors to help provide for their families.
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Mr Rajan had forced the banks to recognise the holes in their balance-sheets, indirectly taking on the tycoons who had benefited from the largesse of compliant bank bosses.
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They spent a portion of it in the ensuing months, and then the economic impact (aside from the increase in government debt to pay for the largesse) quickly disappeared.
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One place where the battle will be fought is Watford, a Tory-Labour marginal on the northern outskirts of London, and one of the beneficiaries of Mr Johnson's largesse.
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One place where the battle will be fought is Watford, a Tory-Labour marginal on the northern outskirts of London, and one of the beneficiaries of Mr Johnson's largesse.
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Italian debt outperformed, with yields dropping 13-19 bps across the curve; the euro zone's third-largest economy is seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse.
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The CFPB formerly had a blank check to spend whatever it wanted out of the Federal Reserve System's largesse, and it was run by a single all-powerful chief.
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But rather than donate the familial fortune to causes that broadly benefit society, Moss and Baden say the Greens restrict their largesse to charities that meet strict doctrinal standards.
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Much of that is thanks, in typically capitalist fashion, to the largesse of Rex Sinquefield, a retired billionaire whose St. Louis Chess Campus has been Caruana's home since 2014.
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These days, the ineluctable forces of demographics and longevity gains are forcing states to confront their underfunded pension largesse of the past, and for most it's not terribly pleasant.
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"The Largesse of the Sea Maiden," as a volume, drills down into and through what is tolerable until it hits a powerful vein of the painfully mortal and lasting.
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Because there is no effective congressional oversight, that means that CFPB bureaucrats can pick and choose the recipients of their largesse without needing any kind of permission from Congress.
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Here's a key piece of Koch's point: Consider the regulations, handouts, mandates, subsidies and other forms of largesse our elected officials dole out to the wealthy and well-connected.
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The largesse of China's Belt and Road Initiative increasingly rivals the financial discipline of multilateral development banks, even as it has become entangled in controversy over debt and geopolitical impact.
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Beneficiaries of Epstein's scientific largesse included Harvard and MIT, according to press releases and records including filings by Epstein's charitable foundations to the Internal Revenue Service, reviewed by BuzzFeed News.
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It might reduce individuals to a position of defencelessness before the mighty state, either by forcing them to obey the state's edicts or making them dependent on the state's largesse.
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But it struggles to match the largesse of China, which not only has a GDP five times India's but also a leadership that does not have to answer to voters.
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Companies that boast a faster pace of growth like the big U.S. tech names or Europe's luxury giants have been particularly favored during the past decade of central bank largesse.
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Read more: Taxi mogul who borrowed millions from Michael Cohen swears it wasn't for his weed business But the establishment's largesse doesn't seem to be changing the embattled lawyer's trajectory.
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Nor will they agree to serve as an ATM for financing reconstruction of post-ISIS Syria if the main beneficiaries of Saudi largesse are the Assad regime, Iran, and Russia.
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In fact, it could reasonably be characterized as an attempt to justify Facebook's own largesse on the grounds that only it has the scale to fix the problems it created.
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Jaitley's fiscal largesse will not only boost consumer spending, but may also shore up the fortunes of Modi's nationalist party in five regional elections for which voting begins on Saturday.
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There is, though, no plan for how to pay for this largesse, other than to borrow (how much is unknown, because he has revealed just the contours of his proposal).
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America has no flag carrier, and though its airlines do benefit from various forms of public largesse, they have to compete in a way that some of these rivals don't.
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And i have no doubt in retirement, he will get to fully enjoy the largesse of one of the wealthy masters for whom he worked so diligently while in office.
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If past history is any judge, he will do so through a mix of media marketing and promises of economic and political largesse intended to keep his coalition partners mollified.
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Likely voters were outraged to learn that Wall Street was the biggest recipient of the tax bill's largesse and that Congress passed bills enabling discrimination in auto and home lending.
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Some royals became disaffected after Prince Mohammed reigned in traditional largesse for many family members, heavily restricted their movements and replaced their security details with guards who report to him.
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He also took advantage of his close relationship with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose financial largesse may have helped nudge Issaias Afwerki, Eritrea's president, to the table.
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There's plenty of room for corporate profits in the path to zero emissions, but the line running through all of the above is muscular government action—not private sector largesse.
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Some of this largesse and certainly some of the money is going to the same militias, now rebranded as Popular Militia Forces (PMF) organized, trained, and financed by the IRGC.
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But Israeli officials privately welcome the Qatari largesse in Gaza, seeing a means of preventing humanitarian crises even if the money helps Hamas maintain its rule over the blockaded strip.
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News of T-Mobile's largesse at the hotel Trump still owns and profits from just blocks away from the White House was first broken by the Washington Post in January.
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"Miteb is well-liked by tribal leaders and, more important, by recruits who benefit from his largesse," wrote scholar Joseph Kechichian in his book Power and Succession in Arab Monarchies.
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To lead the effort, Thorkilsen hired someone else with a real connection to This Old House — Jennifer Largesse, who served as a writer and producer for the magazine before joining About.
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But to take a step back: when people think of the private-sector excess in Washington associated with government largesse, most of what they're talking about is the military-industrial complex.
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The U.S. stock market, however, has been on a 10-year bull run, but even post-recession startups — enjoying the riches of the private funding market's largesse — delayed, delayed and delayed.
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That's not normally how we think of Musk, who's more associated with startup self-reliance than government largesse — but the dynamic was in place long before Trump arrived on the scene.
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The Met is one of several cultural centers that have enjoyed the Sacklers' largesse over decades, helping the family earn a reputation as transatlantic patrons of the arts and generous philanthropists.
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On the one hand, they want to encourage Mr Mnangagwa to embark rapidly on the minimum economic and political reforms needed to unlock largesse from the World Bank, IMF and others.
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Once again, it's time for The Monitor, WIRED's look at all that's new and news in the world of pop culture, from casting rumors to the current recipients of Netflix's largesse.
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Etsy's largesse ends after tomorrow, but it will continue to offset its own carbon footprint going forward, becoming the first ecommerce company to completely offset all its emissions generated from shipping.
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But while Sanders famously proved that millions of people will contribute an average of $27 a pop to finance his campaign, we still don't know how extensive that largesse really is.
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"Every country is going to be different, but in macro, countries want you to show that you won't be dependent on their largesse," said Jennifer Stevens, executive editor of International Living.
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Low-rated Spanish, Italian and Portuguese government bonds, seen as the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse, slightly outperformed the rest of the market with yields down 1-2 basis points (bps).
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Coal-fired generation with CCS would likely require huge subsidies in order to be cost-competitive, and selling such largesse with public money will be incredibly hard for governments in democracies.
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The network, like the BBC, is more of "a state, public broadcaster than a private, commercial, profit-maximizing company," meaning that it could theoretically exist off the largesse of the Emir.
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Almost half of SoftBank's mammoth $100 billion Vision Fund comes courtesy of Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund — so any startup vying for SoftBank's largesse is also indirectly clamoring for Saudi Arabia's.
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He also took advantage of his close relationship with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose financial largesse may have helped nudge Issaias Afwerki, Eritrea's president, to the negotiating table.
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He was one of about two thousand people who'd volunteered for the trip, and the size of his largesse had all but guaranteed him the next available spot on a ship.
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The move will take pressure off the very people who used their largesse to invest in assets, and not in people, over the course of the recovery that began in 2009.
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The family largesse created the University of Chicago, Colonial Williamsburg, the Rockefeller University, the Museum of Modern Art and the Rockefeller Foundation, not to mention countless institutions and non-profits overseas.
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More worryingly, state firms can become vehicles for corruption, used to dole out the largesse of the state to favoured backers or to funnel social wealth into the pockets of the powerful.
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Southern European debt underperformed, with yields rising 5 bps; these countries are seen as the biggest beneficiary of ECB largesse, so any hint of a rise in inflation hits them the hardest.
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Money markets currently price in a 10 basis points increase in the ECB's deposit rate in October 2019, in what would be the first hike since 2011 after years of monetary largesse.
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"Egypt needs Saudi Arabia's largesse and Saudi Arabia—surrounded by enemies and unfriendly regimes in Iran, Syria, Iraq and Yemen—needs Egypt's regional weight," says Nael Shama, a Cairo-based political analyst.
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Many of the Arab autocracies have been propped up by Saudi largesse, including Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Sudan, and Djibouti, all of whom have signed on rhetorically to Riyadh's crusade against Iran's rulers.
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Such largesse is more feasible north of the border: because of the financial settlement between Westminster and Holyrood, per-person public spending in Scotland is a tenth higher than in Britain overall.
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In the government's earlier efforts to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels and LED lamps, it spread its largesse among a lot of local firms, resulting in excess capacity and slumping prices.
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If last week does prove to be a game changer, a tightening of central bank largesse across the world tends to lift U.S. Treasury yields regardless of any change of Fed thinking.
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Those who stayed tended either to depend on the state—as students, public employees, pensioners or recipients of federal largesse—or to fall into the sprawling underground economy and bustling drug trade.
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Yet Najib, who has steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, retains a tight grip on UMNO by commanding a vast patronage system that spreads the largesse among ordinary Malays as well as party apparatchiks.
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Britain's medal success is due in part to ruthless decisions to cut funding to sports and athletes with little chance of victory, and to divert the largesse to those with better prospects.
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It is time for the beneficiaries of the Sacklers' name-buying largesse—the Metropolitan Museum, Harvard, Columbia, and the Louvre, to name just a few—to scrutinize the provenance of large donations.
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For financial markets the earnings recession of 2016 was mitigated by central bank largesse, and this year stocks on both sides of the Atlantic enjoyed earnings growth of at least 10 percent.
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Those sanctions brought Iran to the table, and the removal of those economic consequences with the front-ended largesse of tens of billions of dollars, brought the opposite response: an emboldened Iran.
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But if the case for retaining Pelosi is that she's the Democrat best positioned to extract financial largesse from rich people, you can see how her analysis might have gotten slightly distorted.
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My bank teller recently laughed out loud at my name, confiding that as a school principal in Indiana, she had personally seen Pence's largesse as he delivered winter coats to needy children.
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Though France's welfare largesse helps keep inequality below the OECD average, its "yellow vest" protests have exposed a deep-rooted belief the system nonetheless is not working for large swathes of population.
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Finance minister Philip Hammond will announce his annual budget next week, armed with better than expected public finances but needing to balance any largesse with caution over the huge uncertainty posed by Brexit.
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Libertarian conservatives have to ask if they're happy with Trump handing a massive check to the military industrial complex -- a group no more deserving of taxpayer largesse than the banks or Planned Parenthood.
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But the biggest contributions came from Mexicans themselves, who responded with so much food, supplies and volunteer work that officials had difficulty moving largesse from wealthy and accessible neighborhoods to the most needy.
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Indeed, if India bows to Washington's pressure to cut ties with Russia, it is not impossible to envision Pakistan becoming a most attractive alternative for Kremlin largesse and closer ties than ever before.
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Pence isn't necessarily the end of #NeverTrump, but he's a continuation of the political marketing strategy that Trump through his enthusiasm and largesse can make people who aren't doing great do great again.
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The Democratic candidates for president are layering more and more programs that require major spending onto their agendas as they seek the votes of constituencies that they believe will benefit from such largesse.
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The more China offers economic largesse and inducements, the more it will need to reassure the recipient and the world that it is not laying a 'debt trap' or seeking to buy influence.
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Such largesse explains why Sudan, struggling with a collapsing currency and soaring unemployment, has chosen to favour economic ties with Saudi Arabia over a relationship with Iran that was largely based on arms.
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"It's like having a $4,000 increase, which isn't bad," he mused, though he did not mention that such largesse was at the very highest ends of estimates about the impact of the bill.
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After implementing its programme to increase child benefit (family 500+, 0.9% of GDP in 2016), the agency expects that the government will moderate other electoral promises of fiscal largesse to remain EU compliant.
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The band have successfully brought the largesse of modern rock sounds together with Turner's highly specific, unmistakably British vision of the world: it's tough to see how any British music fan could resist.
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While nothing is known yet about the spirit of Lagarde's review, Dirk Schumacher, an economist at French bank Natixis, said he saw it as increasingly difficult for QE supporters to justify more largesse.
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But price growth is now comfortably above 1 percent, leading some rate setters, particularly in the wealthier northern countries of the currency union, to call for a reduction in the ECB's monetary largesse.
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There's a largesse here that, weirdly, hearkens back to Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, movies that envisioned Gotham City as a neon funhouse full of the loudest-possible architecture and even louder personalities.
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They, along with small Caribbean nations who had benefited from Venezuelan oil largesse, prevented the OAS from passing even a basic resolution condemning the well-documented human rights abuses of the Venezuelan dictatorship.
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If we were to be incredibly generous to Amazon we might say, Hm, maybe it's settling in a woman-skewed city to finally use its absolutely disgusting largesse to actually hire more women.
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The dialogue is organized by the Fort Ross Conservancy, the nonprofit which operates the park on a day-to-day basis, and has been the chief recipient of the Renova Fort Ross Foundation's largesse.
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Part of 22009's global economic success was put down to a combination of extraordinarily loose monetary policy and competent management by central banks of their attempts to wean the world off such largesse.
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On his recent provincial swing he pressed flesh, announced local infrastructure projects as though they were acts of personal largesse and even freed birds from captivity—a ritual good deed in local Buddhist practice.
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" After witnessing such a display of largesse, he had his mother drop him off down the block from school, telling her at the time that the distant drop-off was because of "basketball practice.
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Beyond the trip's public relations debacle, Sisi faces uncomfortable questions about the future of relations between the two countries as Saudi largesse is shrinking and Egypt appears to have little to offer in return.
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One of the top recipients of China's largesse, Malaysia, has recently stopped work on a $20 billion rail link between its east and west coasts, a rare setback for the Belt and Road initiative.
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"Back in 1982, when Ronald Reagan was in office—not exactly a time of government largesse—we still drew certain lines," said Clare Huntington, a professor of family and poverty law at Fordham University.
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Even if it was lawfully procured, the house points to the luxury and largesse she enjoys, as Pakistan inhabits the dismal 147 out of 186 spot in women's health, education, political and economic empowerment.
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But the country's economic woes, after decades of apartheid rule, simply left no viable alternative to Beijing's largesse and Mandela had to make a moral choice in the interests of the South African people.
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H: Is what you're trying to do at odds with working within the milieu of a festival like Locarno, where it's decidedly corporate and backed by tons of sponsors whose largesse make everything possible?
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Indeed, there is a long history of US allies and client states accepting billions of dollars in American military and economic largesse only to pursue policies against US interests or carp about American unreliability.
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And many people who benefit from government largesse fail to realize it: Sixty percent of Americans who claim the mortgage-interest deduction, which applies to homeowners, say they have never used a government program.
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Museums have long depended on the largesse of those who privately own important collections and are actively courting the next generation to create relationships that will result in major donations and continued financial support.
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It was a baking hot day, and the officers looked disheveled in sweat-dampened shorts and T-shirts, but they waved away Berezovsky's largesse and made it clear they were there on serious business.
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While the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to receive obscenely huge amounts of government largesse, so many Americans now use and abuse drugs that it's the height of futility to try and stop it.
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The White House budget intends to reduce government largesse with proposals to trim the edges, including $53 billion in contract abuses, $18 billion in improper tax refunds, and closer oversight on federal agency spending.
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Pakistan, with its own significant nuclear arsenal and as a frequent recipient of Saudi financial largesse, has long been seen as a potential quick source for a nuclear weapon for its fellow Islamic nation.
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But one reason that the company can afford such largesse is that it has made a fortune from marketing OxyContin, a drug that, thanks to over-prescription, is at the heart of America's opioid epidemic.
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While this fiscal largesse helped to lift millions out of poverty and empowered poorer Brazilians, it also paved the way for the current crisis by leaving the economy vulnerable to the collapse in commodities prices.
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Brazil is struggling with what is expected to be its worst recession since at least 1901, following a mix of fiscal largesse and interventionist policies during Rousseff's first term in office which zapped investors' confidence.
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A Supreme Court campaign finance ruling last year was aimed at ending billions in big business largesse showered on politicians, after a probe into corruption at state oil company Petrobras sparked outrage at crony capitalism.
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Chávez flew around the world on his Presidential jet, giving speeches, dispensing largesse, funding political campaigns, and promoting the idea of a multipolar world in which the United States was no longer the single hegemon.
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The establishment of links with Panama is a coup for China, which has been showering largesse on countries throughout Central America in recent years in an attempt to get them to break ties with Taiwan.
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The whole thing is almost too easy to turn into a metaphor for the contemporary human condition: humiliated, voiceless, competing for the largesse of corporations, and broadcast on social media for the world to see.
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His fans accuse the two men of being money-seeking leeches who lived off Jackson's largesse and only now are bringing forth these tales of abuse in order to siphon more money from Jackson's estate.
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Schauer's largesse for the anti-marijuana movement has been eclipsed only by Sheldon Adelson, founder and CEO of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, a gambling empire that includes 264 casinos in the U.S. and Asia.
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In July of the same year, Hungary joined Greece – another distressed European target of Chinese largesse – in blocking reference to Beijing in a Brussels statement on the illegality of Chinese claims in the South China Sea.
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Tuesday's largesse was in sharp contrast to fundraising just two years ago, when the diocese appealed for 150 million euros to help restore the cathedral, some of which dates to the middle of the 12th century.
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In a longer-tem perspective, some investors are wondering if the era of central bank largesse is drawing to a close, and this will bring an end to a 35-year bull run in world bonds.
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Arguments abound whether Greece should get Germany's largesse or Hungary should fund a Portuguese highway but this much is true: when the cultures and nations of Europe were aligned against each other all hell broke loose.
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Weidmann, a policy hawk who in the past criticized the ECB's easy-money policy under Mario Draghi and was long tipped to replace him, said rate-setters shouldn't be afraid of disappointing investors expecting more largesse.
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The attention surrounding Donald Trump's charitable endeavors comes from different reasons: primarily a desire to examine his much-touted largesse and the rare public availability of financial statements that offer a window into his management approach.
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While the gifts Reuters saw being handed out were mostly modest, the largesse in total would be considerable if all the 183,000 garment workers Hun Sen says he has addressed since last year received some cash.
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But part of the credit splurge seems to have found its way into exchange trading, particularly of commodities such as iron ore and steel that are directly linked to the real-world beneficiaries of government largesse.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Investors expect euro zone bonds to be pummeled in the coming months as the European Central Bank starts turning off the money taps after years of unprecedented largesse, a Sentix poll showed on Monday.
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Some go so far as to suggest that other countries free-ride on their largesse, and that Americans are thus subsidising drug development, a situation which, they say, needs to be fixed by changing trade agreements.
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His re-election could also bolster the Liberal Party's chances of forming a coalition government after a parliamentary election due in 2020 and restore investor confidence eroded by several years of political instability and fiscal largesse.
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Foreigners' willingness to fund Uncle Sam's largesse has been a topic of hot debate for much of the last 22 years as the current account deficit, and to a lesser extent the budget deficit, have widened.
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As such, I'm now, despite growing up a conservative afraid of such government largesse as "Medicare for all," convinced that a single public payer, either as rate setter or as a true single payer, is needed.
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Hamas raised funds from taxes on tunnel goods, made people dependent on its largesse, and took over commercial trade, while ordinary people in Gaza were subjected to punitive and unlawful restrictions on their freedom of movement.
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Netanyahu came out with a rare statement on the MOU talks, in the face of Israeli opposition accusations that he is endangering American largesse by feuding with Obama over Iran's nuclear program and Palestinian peace talks.
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To that he would add a "repatriation window" for corporate profits held abroad, and a new, voter-pleasing wave of infrastructure projects, including reopened shipyards, modernised airports, local sports facilities and other visible signs of Trumpian largesse.
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We need to encourage those cities to demand their fair share of the London-based pie: a fair share of the nation's treasures for local museums, a fair share of the licence-payers' largesse for local broadcasting.
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While Trump has repeatedly claimed charitable largesse, an in depth review by the Washington Post has raised questions as to whether Trump was as willing to give as he claims -- or if he gave anything at all.
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L) has awarded departing Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver a 23.04 million pounds ($1.73 million) pay package for his final year in charge, teeing up a possible clash with investors who have challenged the lender's largesse for years.
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"Central bank asset purchases and broader largesse have been a key support factor for markets for nearly a decade," said ANZ economist Felicity Emmett, who wondered if the global economy could cope with such a sea change.
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Hoffman on Wednesday issued a public apology for financing Kremlin-esque tactics in the 2017 special election for a Senate seat in Alabama, saying he was unaware that his largesse was behind disinformation tactics that boosted Sen.
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The publication of the report coincides with a row between Italy and Brussels over the country's 2019 budget, in which the eurosceptic Italian government plans to flout EU fiscal rules to fulfill electoral promises of government largesse.
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President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has shown considerable largesse in his efforts to save Mexico's largest company, which came into being as the result of an oil nationalization in 1938 and is a source of Mexican pride.
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The full extent of Epstein's largesse may be millions of dollars higher than the sums recorded by his foundations in filings to the IRS because Epstein's philanthropy is entangled with that of his billionaire associate Leon Black.
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Economic growth in the late 21980s was exceptional, disadvantaged groups enjoyed strong income gains, and government (through programs such as an expanded earned-income tax credit) sought to redistribute some of the largesse the economy was producing.
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"This information today, while actually good for Main Street, is less than good for a Wall Street that has become addicted to the Fed's largesse," said Mark Luschini, chief investment strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott in Philadelphia.
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For decades, the billionaire has lavished his philanthropic largesse across hundreds of diverse—and decidedly liberal—colleges and universities across the country such as Harvard University, University of Chicago and a number of historically black colleges and universities.
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And even if the Democrats conclude that disenchanted voters want a more activist government—a dubious proposition—Mr Trump's vows to protect Social-Security spending (public pensions) would complicate a bid to expand their base with more largesse.
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A tiny part of that largesse was going this week to young gang members being flown to Malé from distant atolls to add to the numbers showing support for Mr Yameen, even as he breaks up opposition rallies.
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On an all new episode of BALLS DEEP, Thomas follows Zen Buddhist Tracey Ryan as he floats through the moneyed world of the New York art scene and builds a human rhizome of creativity, entrepreneurial largesse, and fun.
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Observers said a win for Iohannis might bolster the Liberal Party's chance of forming a coalition government after a parliamentary election due in 2020 and restore investor confidence, eroded by several years of political instability and fiscal largesse.
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Many euro zone government bond yields have retreated to new record lows this week as ECB policymakers unite behind a pledge for more stimulus, with Italian debt in particular benefiting from the promise of more central bank largesse.
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Investors will be looking for clues to whether the review will see Lagarde cement her predecessor's legacy of monetary largesse, or if she will use it to acknowledge worries that years of easy credit have fuelled financial bubbles.
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All South European government debt — seen as major beneficiaries of the ECB largesse — have been in demand since and Spain's 10-year borrowing costs are a good 13 basis points below the level before the Oct. 1. referendum.
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With two U.S. interest rate hikes already baked into market expectations, traders believe there is more upside room for the euro as the European Central Bank may move to rein in its monetary largesse faster than the market anticipates.
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On questions about immigration, healthcare, foreign policy and other topics, Cruz and Rubio turned what Trump presents as assets -- his connections, his ability to negotiate, his financial largesse -- into negatives: a lack of commitment to Republican politicians and ideals.
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Italian debt — seen as one of the biggest beneficiaries of ECB largesse — has been a particularly strong performer since, a trend that accelerated after a surprise ratings upgrade from S&P and the approval of a new electoral system.
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Videgaray's visit represents the latest development in U.S.-led pressure on Maduro, who retains loyalty from some Caribbean nations that have long benefited from Caracas' oil largesse and have been unwilling to shun the country in regional diplomatic efforts.
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All told, rising wages traditionally act as a net positive for the real economy but could prove menacing for those companies that relied on the largesse of the Fed instead of investing in improving their productivity and competitive positions.
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Castro's socialist government survived the fall of the Berlin Wall, but at the cost of more than a decade of great economic hardship that was relieved by the largesse of his political disciple, the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
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Although world stocks and bonds remain near record highs thanks to promises of ever more central bank largesse, the sudden dash for these financial bunkers shows all is not as calm as a cursory reading of headline indexes suggests.
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His hesitancy shows how many in Congress have come to rely on the NRA's largesse to help them remain in office -- and their fear of crossing a group legendary for its ability to get its supporters out to vote.
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The court's opinion, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, rejected the government's position that simply agreeing to meet with someone on account of such largesse could be enough to constitute an official act that could trigger a corruption conviction.
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Another section of the exhibition looks at female artists' works in the collection of L'Aracine, an association founded in France in the 1980s by the late Madeleine Lommel, primarily in response to Dubuffet's gesture of largesse in neighboring Switzerland.
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It means recipients of Gates' largesse can no longer offer their wares to journals such as Nature, the New England Journal of Medicine or the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, since reading the contents of these publications costs money.
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So Largesse is the face of project and tool tutorials, while Aaron Massey (host of the Mr. Fix It channel on YouTube) is the host for home fixes and upgrades and Kirsten Grove of Simply Grove is handling design files.
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Even Commodore Bombugalage is disappointed that China's focus on infrastructure led to the building, near Hambantota, of a cricket ground and a little-used airport in the home district of a former president, whose election campaign also benefited from China's largesse.
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And, far from providing a platform to dispense largesse in return for loyalty, the position should come with tougher demands and closer scrutiny, thanks to a set of institutional reforms set to be passed just before the next president is chosen.
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It is the latest in a series of high-profile investor rebellions at Britain's top firms, and comes as Prime Minister Theresa May considers a range of changes to the rules around corporate governance to rein in firms' largesse to bosses.
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But there may be as many as ever, encouraged by yet more federal largesse in the form of a scheme launched under Barack Obama, in response to yet another school shooting, in Connecticut in 2012, in which 20 children were killed.
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The mine could become the poster child for how coal is now reliant on government largesse, how it can no longer compete against cheaper and cleaner rivals, and how it damages the reputations of anybody brave enough to go near it.
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For a variety of reasons—because our politics and media depend upon their conditional largesse, because of the weird things that happen to a culture that adopts capitalism as its unofficial civic religion—no one even tells them to shut up.
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Or, rather, for it to extend only to himself, and no further; it is as if he wishes to draw historical lines around himself and his personal fortune, much of which was amassed through a different kind of government largesse.
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N) and other companies that have welcomed Buffett's largesse, accepting a C$29 billion (US$20143 billion) credit line - carrying a 22014 percent interest rate - and up to C$290 million (US$215 million) in equity, for a 38.4 percent stake.
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This is the same man who was exposed in the Panama Papers as being a central figure in a network that received $2 billion from the largesse of Russian state banks and oligarchs with no plausible explanation as to why.
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He began his latest tirade against NATO even before landing in Brussels -- raising yet again the misleading specter of an entire continent that has purportedly failed to carry its weight in paying for its defense, relying instead on American largesse.
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While the United States is part of a six-country coalition that has a conditional deal with the Iranians, the mullahs in Tehran are not our friends, nor have they moderated their behavior in response to the Obama administration's naïve largesse.
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On both occasions, and in all of the moments when I've heard it in between, the song's largesse allowed me to simply be enveloped by it, as my heart swelled up with whatever it wanted, the strings stretching like muscles.
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The showpiece of that largesse is a new training facility in the city of Jericho, where U.S. military personnel also provide training, and one of the locations visited by CNN during a year of exclusive access to the Palestinian Security Services.
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Salvini has pledged to introduce a flat tax in 2020, but the European Union executive has warned that heavily indebted Italy cannot afford such budget largesse and has threatened Rome with disciplinary action unless it gets its accounts in order.
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The party begs financial largesse from the Koch brothers and parrots the idiocies of climate denial on their behalf -- despite record heatwaves, forest fires, hurricanes and this season's loopy winter weather, which scientists say is linked to an overheated Arctic.
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They knew that the shifting sound of the drawer opening meant largesse—gold stars or stamps or, in exceptional cases, gummy frogs—and that Miss Lewis's bounty was capable of falling on them all, but fell perhaps more often on Joseph.
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The boosters of this tax bill and their lobbyist friends are claiming, yet again, that corporate largesse is a better way to run a country than democracy, and that we are better off counting on CEOs than on each other.
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Cambodia has continued to accept Chinese largesse with glee, even as most of the rest of South-East Asia grows ever warier of its giant neighbour to the north (Laos, an even thinner slice of ham just north of Cambodia, is an exception).
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As large net recipients of EU largesse (in some years Hungary, for instance, receives EU funds equivalent to 22020% of its GDP), the thing they feared most was that no budget would be passed at all, and the money would stop flowing.
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LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Emerging stocks hit new one-year highs on Friday and headed for their fifth straight week of gains, as below-forecast Chinese data stirred expectations that Beijing would add to the stimulus largesse of developed countries' central banks.
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The main focus will be whether the ECB thinks the euro zone recovery is now so strong that it can end its 25 trillion euro bond buying largesse in one fell swoop in September, as some in its ranks have been suggesting.
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It's about whether Silicon Valley can share a bit of its wealth rather than whether it should have so much wealth; about how it can better target its largesse rather than whether it should be so damn large in the first place.
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The main focus will be whether the ECB thinks the euro zone recovery is now so strong that it can end its 2500 trillion euro bond buying largesse in one fell swoop in September, as some in its ranks have been suggesting.
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This would see Frankfurt go down the route of the Bank of Japan (BoJ), which has hovered up 45% of its government's debt as part of an increasingly desperate effort to revive a stagnant economy via quantitative easing (QE) and fiscal largesse.
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The impeachment process that was created in Philadelphia in 1789 is not designed to operate alongside a wealthy donor class that can withhold reelection funds from lawmakers who vote the wrong way, so to speak, and shower its largesse upon more loyal alternatives.
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According to the Toilet Board Coalition — a business-led partnership created to address the global sanitation crisis — an estimated 2.3 billion people around the world lack access to toilets, which traditionally has been financed by taxes, well-intentioned nonprofits or corporate largesse.
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Given the range of capabilities that Hezbollah possesses – both unconventional and more traditional – it could add a new dimension to the crisis should Iran ask or direct the group to repay the largesse the regime has bestowed on it over the years.
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Goldman-Sachs' hold on power, and indeed the ongoing tsunami of corporate lobbyists and revolving-door business leaders holding the top ranks of Washington power, will represent the classic tale of how a democracy can be strangled by corporate largesse and influence.
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The purpose of the joint committee's funds is largely to spend funds on behalf of the Democratic nominee and downballot candidates in the general election, meaning that Sanders, too, would benefit from the committee's largesse should he defeat Clinton at the convention in July.
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In "Koch Industries" (2019), a work that compresses family genealogy and byzantine corporate diversification, Powhida connects the financial largesse of Charles and David Koch to a global manufacturing supply chain, an array of conservative (read: reactionary) political groups and think tanks, and cultural philanthropy.
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Right now we know from a random leak that the manager of a Trump hotel in New York attributed a business turnaround to the Saudi government's largesse — which, if true, would tell us something damning and important about US-Saudi relations in the Trump era.
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But the university, a pioneer in offering scholarships for low-income and minority students, has not enjoyed the same government largesse as the emblematic stadium, recipient since 221 of more than 285 billion reais ($2000 million) in state funds for World Cup and Olympic remodeling.
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In the years following, Trump's charity continued to bestow its largesse on other decidedly left-wing organizations, including a donation of just under $22006,21 in 2000 to the Susan G. Komen Foundation, a major donor to Planned Parenthood and frequent target of conservative ire.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Emerging economies' debt in euros has shot to record highs thanks to European Central Bank largesse, and yet an approaching end to this generosity won't necessarily inflict the kind of pain that markets once suffered at the hands of the U.S. Fed.
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All of this points to the reality that the private sector, as has been the case so many times throughout the annals of U.S. innovation, is taking the lead in AI and counting on entrepreneurial spirit rather than government largesse to win the day.
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It replaced an open-ended promise of federal support for needy women and children with a stricter regime, which capped the largesse, henceforth known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), at $22013 billion a year, and put the states in charge of it.
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This was a man who led what the Center for Public Integrity dubbed "The Torturers' Lobby" nearly thirty years ago, rummaging for work among the most heinous governments that emerged in the late stage of the Cold War, with hands out, looking for American largesse.
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The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the probe is examining whether the Clintons promised or performed any policy favors in return for largesse to their charitable efforts or whether donors made commitments of donations in hopes of securing government outcomes.
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In that ruling, the majority recognized that "just as troubling to a functioning democracy as classic quid pro quo corruption" is the danger that large contributors will be able to purchase influence over and access to the officeholders who are the recipients of their largesse.
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In a country routinely, even somewhat blithely, labelled a "Soviet theme park," a state-run economy is still very much alive, but is largely reliant on the largesse of the Russian state, which remains one of its very few foreign investors and trade partners.
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It is not simply the fact that largely due to the Federal Reserve's largesse, along with that of the world's other major central banks, global equity and housing prices are at lofty levels and that these markets seem to be unfazed by any bad news.
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But in "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden," Denis Johnson tries to comfort us about his impending absence, and to use his stunning gift for revelation — truly his singular skill — to brighten the interiors of tragedy and help us wave off the vultures hovering above.
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Unlike the former Labor Senator Sam Dastyari who was forced to resign in December 2017, there is no evidence Liu has opposed government policy nor colluded with foreign entities against Australian authorities in return for financial largesse from donors allegedly linked to the United Front.
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Yet Venezuela's petro-largesse days are behind it, and any residual influence among former clients in forums like the O.A.S. or United Nations is bound to be eclipsed soon by the high cost in cash and international criticism from continuing to prop up Mr. Maduro.
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A rising tide of defense spending may not lift all defense contractors as evenly as in previous eras of military largesse as new political realities bump up against an industry where any individual deal can be part commercial transaction, part diplomatic maneuver and part foreign trade negotiation.
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Activity seems resistant to the surprises that once might have provoked major market drops, helped by huge sums that many central banks are still pumping into the financial system - and the prospect of government largesse in the United States where the Federal Reserve is reducing its stimulus.
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People and institutions lending their savings to Uncle Sam can be very grateful for the Fed's largesse: A nearly 40 basis point decline of yields on the benchmark ten-year Treasury note in the first three-and-a-half months of this year is a nice return.
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But anyone on the receiving end of Kardashian West's fragrance largesse might want to check their present against her color-coded gift list first, because they might be in some petty – sorry, we mean pretty – rarefied company among anyone who's ever had beef with the star.
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The plan, which would be backed by additional funds from the EU's common budget from 2021, private sector loans and development banks, amounts to a strategic response to China's largesse in much of central Asia and south-eastern Europe, where Beijing has invested billions of dollars.
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And the sheer largesse of the songs—their breadth, their depth, and their dimensional, layered quality—mean that from the very earliest guitar thrums of first track, "Zebra," Teen Dream is pervaded by a sense of inevitability, as if its atmosphere was a part of nature.
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Drifting and dreaming in mid-century luxury, Hunter is a cipher: Her past as a designer is hinted at (she tries to draw at one point, to no avail), and it becomes clear that the privilege that surrounds her is a function of her in-laws' largesse.
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Uber's ascent to the largest rideshare company in the world was fueled by a recurring cycle in which it blatantly ignored state and local laws, became entrenched and widely used in a community, and then tried to use its largesse to change the laws it was breaking.
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Hillary Clinton sets $50 million first-quarter fundraising goal And while Sanders has sworn off super PACs and criticizes Clinton's largesse, a group run by National Nurses United is backing the Vermont senator regardless and has raised $2.3 million, with about half of that remaining, the group reported.
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Her use of non-traditional, inexpensive materials evokes the way in which Black people, who generated America's wealth first as enslaved people and then as victims of systemic exploitation, were shut out of the country's largesse and had to make do with whatever materials were ready to hand.
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After it was published, as "Undersea," Carson began writing her first book under the largesse of F.D.R.'s New Deal, in the sense that she drafted it on the back of National Recovery Administration stationery, while working for what became, in 21964, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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While the Asian country's financial largesse helped spur growth across Latin America as populist leaders like Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa reaped the benefits of a commodities boom, recently elected right-leaning governments and U.S. officials have expressed concern that the region is becoming financially dependent on China.
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But while Alphabet, Microsoft and Apple are worth $3.68 trillion as a trio, and SaaS stocks are now worth 12.3x times their revenue (using enterprise value instead of market cap, for those keeping score at home), not every private, venture-backed company will necessarily benefit from public investor largesse.
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Houston's final tour — full of boos and walkouts after she had lost her voice — and the movie Sparkle are shown to be financially motivated decisions based on the fact that she had run out of money, in large part because of her largesse and generosity to her family and friends.
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Museums in America have traditionally been supported by rich individuals offering private endowments, but even there museums enjoy some state largesse in the form of tax breaks for donors and lenders, as well as rules favouring not-for-profit organisations (see main chart above for a breakdown of America's museum finance).
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While his forces carried out widespread human rights violations and he embezzled billions of dollars from the nation's coffers, the Zairean national team were being lavished with gifts, favours and general largesse, with the added incentive of knowing that failure on the pitch could mean confiscation of property, imprisonment or death.
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But lest you think Kemp is motivated by a desire for freer and fairer elections, there is, in fact, a Trumpian catch: The likely recipient of Georgia's largesse will be a company that one of Kemp's closest aides used to lobby for, while another served on its board of advisers.
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By pressuring Asian trading partners under the assumption that they will continue to go along with the same international financial rules that up till now the West have controlled, the president has made the choice clear for Asian leaders: remain in this restrictive, increasingly marginalized orbit, or turn toward China's largesse.
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"The administration has announced new regulations that blatantly violate the laws of the United States in a legacy-attempt to further normalize relations with Cuba in the next 85033 days, supposedly to benefit businesses, but the only beneficiaries of the administration's legacy-largesse are the Castros themselves," Melendez said in a statement.
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Consider the largesse extended to renewables in recent years: When a friendly government lowers your operating costs with tax breaks, raises your competitors' costs through regulations and mandates a market for your product — all while shielding your customers from paying for the grid they use — that growth isn't real, much less revolutionary.
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What makes "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" different is that in this case Johnson knew his own time was short, and embarked on his material with an admirable and pitiless openness he conveys through his characters: "It's plain to you that at the time I wrote this, I'm not dead," one says.
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When the bill was passed last summer, supporters touted it as the "most responsible" solution to Puerto Rico's crisis – a law that would protect American taxpayers for footing the bill for the Commonwealth's largesse, facilitate negotiations between the Commonwealth and its creditors, and prevent the establishment of bad precedents for the states.
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Its most notable leap forward is the introduction of extra instrumentation on top of their usual setup, particularly horns and strings, which contribute to the record's sheer largesse (observe the heft of the horn-heavy intro to the Sky Ferreira-featuring "Pain Killer" above, for example) and grow the band's propensity for forcing opposites together.
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The founders, led by Narayana Murthy, the doyen of India's IT services sector, engaged in a lengthy public feud with Sikka on issues ranging from flights on private jets, to over-spending on a takeover, and on the pricey rent for his U.S. office, to the largesse of payouts given to certain executives following their exits.
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Despite the chummy wedding scene and tens of thousands of dollars of Trump largesse – the billionaire businessman has, over the years, given at least $100,000 to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation and made multiple cash donations to Hillary Clinton's various political campaigns before this one – whatever there was between the two has definitely soured.
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After the 2012 GOP nominee's advisers concluded he needed "a more combative footing against President Obama in order to appeal to white, working-class voters," Romney aired a stunningly dishonest ad charging falsely that Obama had removed work requirements from welfare, allowing shiftless leeches to sit back and enjoy government largesse paid for by hardworking Americans.
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Here are the books discussed in this week's "What We're Reading": "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" by Denis Johnson "Robinson" by Jack Robinson "Foe" by J. M. Coetzee "Ulysses" by James Joyce "To Fight Against This Age" by Rob Riemen We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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He may be right; not because a peaceful solution is impossible but because efforts by the international community to solve the crisis have been poorly coordinated and undercut with impunity by Russia, China, Cuba, Nicaragua, Bolivia and, to a lesser extent, small Caribbean nations whose votes at the Organization of American States have been bought by Venezuelan oil largesse.
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Ranting madly about "making Mexico pay" for the wall will become an embarrassment — unless he quietly slaps a federal transfer tax on the $25 billion in remittances sent annually to Mexico, the vast majority of that sum likely wired by illegal aliens, who in some cases rely on American federal and state entitlements to subsidize their Mexican largesse.
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" Inslee's so-called "Freedom from Fossil Fuels" plan calls government subsidies "the gravy train of government largesse for fossil fuel companies that for too long has padded corporate profit at the expense of the public good" and pledged the plan would impose "meaningful safeguards for public health and the environment, and finally hold polluters liable for the climate, health, and environmental damages they are causing.
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Sandler and Aniston still bring their own followings to the exercise -- including the junket-friendly questions about when or if there will ever be a "Friends" reunion -- and thanks to Netflix's largesse, the film's able to attract a solid supporting cast, including Gemma Arterton as a glamorous actress who, in a rare funny moment, prompts Nick to forget Audrey's name when he meets her.
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisThe Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by AdvaMed - House panel expected to approve impeachment articles Thursday Julián Castro jabs ICE: 'Delete your account' Pelosi endorses Christy Smith in bid to replace Katie Hill MORE's (D-Calif.) exit from the 2020 contest as their primary field — once exemplified by its diversity and extreme largesse — has been cut down to a top tier of white candidates.
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After all, in addition to the Cobb fiasco, there's the deal Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed cut for the NFL's Falcons to move out of the 25-year-old Georgia Dome and into a new domed venue, which Reed insisted would cost the city $200 million—but which Falcons owner Arthur Blank recently admitted would, when decades of future operating subsidies are included, amount to almost $700 million worth of public largesse.
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It is hard not to think that in a fundamentally humane society none of this glittering largesse would even be necessary—that inner-city kids would get proper schooling, elderly jazz musicians would have hot meals and shelter, young people in the Bronx who have committed minor nuisance crimes would not be locked up on repurposed jail barges, the parents of children stricken with near death sentences would not be forced to declare bankruptcy.
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Or, ask President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE, who portrays himself as a self-made man who received only a "small loan" from his father … but in fact benefited from his father's largesse to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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More than four months have passed since Mr. Khashoggi was savagely throttled and dismembered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and then discarded, but the bald lies told by the Saudi government to protect the prince — including the attempt to pin the murder on 11 anonymous Saudis, of whom five are said to face execution — and the cynical argument by President Trump that Saudi largesse is more important than justice, have only intensified demands for a full reckoning.
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The trend reflects Democrats' optimism that they can seize the House; the largesse of party donors energized by the divisive leadership of President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE; and the importance, among more ambitious members, of sharing their bounty for the sake of securing the House majority — and boosting their case when it comes time for leadership elections.
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They are: the gorgeous forthcoming memoir "An Imperfect Rapture," by Kelly J. Beard; "Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America," by Alissa Quart; "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," by Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer; Denis Johnson's final book, "The Largesse of the Sea Maiden"; "Hiking With Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are," by John Kaag, my friend and colleague at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell; and "The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir," by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich.
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