Their main aim is to make sure that independent financial advisers charge up-front fees for their work and advice, rather than taking an annual cut of their clients funds as regular commission, of which the client may be only dimly aware.
Now, the same cooperation has made it possible for us to move forward with the biggest annual spending cut in history.
This agreement between Democrats and Republicans, on behalf of all Americans, is on a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.
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It predicted that the drought would cut annual economic growth from 1.9% to 1.15%.
Partly, this reflects the falling cost of distribution, as digitisation has cut annual operating costs.
Japan's bankruptcy laws allow failed insurers to shave underlying policies when they mature and to cut annual payouts.
Year after year you stood before them at the annual meeting and cut a deal, promising them modest growth and a steady dividend check.
With the misused cover of academic theory, politicians forced significant underreporting of official inflation, so as to cut annual cost-of-living adjustments to Social Security, etc.
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Mrs May insisted the government was still on target to cut annual net migration to the UK, from outside the EU, to below 100, 000 by 2015.
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Conversely, Sinai found that raising the U.S. top individual capital gains rate from the current 15 percent rate to 20 percent, as suggested in several deficit reduction plans, would cut annual economic growth by an average of .05 percent per year and job growth would decline throughout the economy by an average of 231, 000 from 2011-2016.
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The bipartisan Congressional Budget Office even reported this week that although the budget is still running at an annual deficit, and so the overall national debt continues to rise, the improving economy and legislative changes have cut the annual deficit in half over the last four years.
Despite the crisis, BMW was careful not to cut its annual intake of 1, 000 apprentices.
Newcrest Mining declined 3.2% after the gold miner cut its annual production forecast.
Japan's Honda has reported a jump in third-quarter profits as US sales recover, but cut its annual forecast as sales in China and Europe drop.
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In its first budget, the Socialist government insisted its promise to cut the annual deficit to the eurozone limit of 3% of GDP next year.
Add to that the fact that both Bravia TVs and PlayStation game consoles cut its annual forecast for televisions to 22 million sets from 27 million.
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Councillors in Taunton are being asked to cut their annual allowance to help rescue the town's theatre which said last week that it would have to close.
Today 25% or so is licensed from the likes of Sony Music, which gets royalties, and the Cartoon Network, which receives an annual fee and a cut of sales.
In early November, the nation's chief financial regulator, Hideyuki Aizawa, called for legislative changes to allow life-insurance companies to cut the annual payouts that they have promised to their policyholders.
Tuesday's move by Alcoa follows Monday's decision by Australian iron ore miners Rio Tinto and Fortescue Metals Group to cut their annual production by 10.0% due to weakening demand from China.
Even fewer pointed out that although the annual loss has been cut by 50% the club is even further from a sustainable business model than it was at the end of the 2009 financial year.
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Asked about his rosy predictions, he admitted that growth had so far disappointed in 2013 and that he had cut his annual forecast to 7.6-7.8%, down from a modest 8% at the start of the year.
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My Tax Policy Center colleague Dan Baneman ran the numbers: Such a step would remove 23, 000 millionaires from the income tax rolls, and cut their annual tax liability by an average of a half-a-million dollars.
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In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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President Obama cut short his annual Hawaiian vacation to head back to Washington D.
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Moray Council said it was facing an "unprecedented" cut in its annual budget.
Last weekend, police forced Ahmadiyah to cut short its annual congress in Bali.
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The cut was part annual efficiency saving and part "a result of the cost of making services safe", it said.
By helping with capacity building around the procurement process, pharmas could cut down on annual losses from counterfeit sales and increase transparency and accountability in an oft-criticized industry.
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