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"ILFC's now going to be self-financing going forward," said Mr. Steenland in an interview on the sidelines of an aviation conference.
ILFC's Chairman Sees a Potential for Sale Matt Jarzemsky 2010
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And first, has Linda McMahon's advantage as a self-financing candidate who's created some jobs outweighed whatever misgivings people have about professional wrestling?
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In an op-ed in USA Today, back in March, Lew explained that Social Security is "entirely self-financing."
Daniel Marans: President's Town Hall Remarks on Social Security Contradict Current Policies Daniel Marans 2011
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While she broke New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's record for self-financing, he stands a good chance of holding the more desirable record of most money spent by a winning candidate
Midterm elections live blog - Monday 25 October Richard Adams 2010
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After all, as White House budget director Jack Lew put it in a February USA Today op-ed, "Social Security benefits are entirely self-financing."
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The person described this and other ideas as a "self-financing Brady Plan," referring to the 1980s-era initiative that reduced Latin American government debt.
Greek Bond Buybacks Discussed at Meeting Stephen Fidler 2011
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The Foreign Office says this will make the plan self-financing, and taxpayers may save nearly £500,000 $800,000 during the current session of Parliament.
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George has an important message for city development on self-financing basis in the case of growing cities of developing countries.
Scott Baker: Will India Lead the Way in Urban Land Tax Reform? A Mission Director from the Indian Ministry of Housing Provides Some Answers Scott Baker 2011
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One participant said it and related proposals were like "a self-financing Brady Plan," referring to the late-1980s initiative to dig Latin America out of its debt crisis.
Greek Debt Talks Widen Stephen Fidler 2011
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As George Lakoff argues in his book, Moral Politics , many Republican conservatives tend to subscribe more strongly and more often to a model that he calls the "strict father model" and has a family structured around a strong, dominant "father" (government), and assumes that the "children" (citizens) need to be disciplined to be made into responsible "adults" (morality, self-financing).
Brian Hardwick: Rick Perry Is A Daddy Brand Brian Hardwick 2011
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