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And even in these areas, the budget cuts programs in order to fund high-priority investments.
Jacob Lew: The 2012 Budget Jacob Lew 2011
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And even in these areas, the budget cuts programs in order to fund high-priority investments.
Jacob Lew: The 2012 Budget Jacob Lew 2011
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And he said there are "still some myopic souls" who will argue that the U.S. cannot sustain its role in the Asia-Pacific area, given other high-priority security challenges such as uncertain democracy moves in the Middle East and North Africa, instability in Pakistan and global terrorist threats.
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The measure would have sent an estimated $2.9 billion to K-12 schools and public colleges and universities, and the vote indicates Americans may not be willing to consider higher taxes in this down economy, despite deep budget cuts to high-priority services like schools.
Proposition 103: Colo. Rejects Higher Sales, Income Taxes; Money Would Have Gone To Schools The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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One way to reduce some of that tension is to warn friends and family that a new business will be a high-priority item for some time.
'Naysayers' prove strong for Michael Matthews, wine bar 2010
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And he said there are "still some myopic souls" who will argue that the U.S. cannot sustain its role in the Asia-Pacific area, given other high-priority security challenges such as uncertain democracy moves in the Middle East and North Africa, instability in Pakistan and global terrorist threats.
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Results-based approaches have been piloted in many of the sectors that will be high-priority for reconstruction.
Wajiha Ahmed: Pakistan's Post-Floods Reconstruction: Doing It Right Wajiha Ahmed 2010
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And Linda who is working on a high-priority project will have to get rid of someone just like Donna who really could afford to lose an employee with no harm done.
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Deshakalyan Chowdhury/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Foreign Direct Investment rules were relaxed in high-priority industries to attract overseas companies and investment.
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The emails show "lighter touch" checks were being used by UKBA local managers in "sharp bursts" to redeploy staff to high-priority targets such as suspected drug smugglers and clandestine entrants and to "mitigate pressure of excessive queues".
UK border checks were waived for travellers in private jets, emails reveal 2011
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