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abstinence Refraining from or at least postponing consumption which could have been afforded. Where the funds not being spent arise from current income, ab...
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Windfall inflation fear
The Independent - London
; SHAREHOLDERS in the newly-floated Alliance & Leicester bank enjoyed a profitable week but their good fortune has left economists worried that this summer's windfall gains will cause consumer spending to soar, taking inflation with it. The size of the windfall payments from building societies and
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 "AAP General News (Australia)")
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Fed: Claims of state windfall gains from fuel GST wrong: Beattie
AAP General News (Australia)
; AAP General News (Australia) 08-22-2000 Fed: Claims of state windfall gains from fuel GST wrong: Beattie CANBERRA, Aug 22 AAP - Claims that states ...
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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City braced for fourth hike in interest rates.(Money)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; The road to ruin is paved with windfall gains, a leading economic forecaster warned yesterday as the City braced itself for a fourth rise in interest rates in as many months. The pounds 150 million of high street sales - 7 per cent of the pounds 2.144 billion total - funded last month by handouts
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It's theft
The Press
; The Minister of Agriculture and Forestry, Jim Anderton, claims one reason for his Government's planned theft of carbon credits from foresters, who created them by planting the trees, is to prevent what he believes would be large and unjustifiable windfall gains to the foresters (Feb 21). Why then
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 "Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)")
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Tory government rapped on selff.
Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
; JOHN Major's Government came under attack from MPs today for its handling of the sale of the rolling stock leasing companies which resulted in the taxpayer losing almost pounds 1 billion and a handful of former British Rail managers becoming multi-millio naires. The influential Commons Public
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Windfall gains tax could prove stormy.(Business)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; Along with inheriting an incredibly healthy economy, New Labour looks set to pull in some windfall gains from two very diverse areas for which they would not have planned. It appears that some 1,500,000 people who are drawing benefits from the DSS could lose at least some of those benefits if they
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Govt to reap $5.6b carbon trade windfall
Sunday Star-Times
; THE GOVERNMENT stands to reap up to $5.6 billion in extra revenue from the introduction of an emissions trading system, official figures show. And power generating companies could pocket net windfall gains of another $2b during 2010-2015. Windfall gains will occur because the cost of carbon
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Developers in HUD Program Also Got Tax Credits; Banking Chairman Faults `Windfall Gains' on Housing Projects Aimed at Helping Poor
The Washington Post
; Developers involved in the Department of Housing and Urban Development's controversial moderate-rehabilitation subsidy program reaped substantial additional profits by qualifying for federal low-income housing tax credits at the same time, according to congressional testimony and HUD investigators.
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Judge Brown's Budget on his efforts to curb the Micawbers
The Independent - London
; How do you gather up a windfall? The London markets are waking up to the fact that something has to be done to stop the windfall gains from the flotation of the building society and mutual insurance groups from feeding through into additional demand. About time too, you might think. The problem has
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Letter: Windfall unity
The Independent - London
; Sir: Your Business Comment (1 November) announces "Blair and Brown fall out over windfall gains". In fact Blair, Brown and the whole Labour Party are united in their commitment to a one-off windfall levy on the excess profits of the privatised monopoly utilities which will pay, over the course of a
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