• For things that are not "countable" - such as water in the river - use less.

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  • Eventually, it has to change because inventory is a countable quantity and hence bound above zero.

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  • The Aid and Assistance benefit pays qualifying individuals the difference between their countable income and the MAPR.

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  • Additionally, retirement plans are countable assets for purposes of negotiating installment plans or settlements, such as an Offers in Compromise.

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  • The rush to fix the latest glitches followed Comelec's revelation that it had evidence of a plot to disenfranchise voters by exploiting their unfamiliarity with the machine-countable ballot forms.

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  • My friends and countrymen to the North have tar sands reserves in Alberta with hundreds of billions of barrels at current prices, and are sitting on a total resource countable in trillions of barrels.

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  • If you're already collecting benefits and have investment income that you don't need and that pushes your benefit into taxable territory consider "converting your countable income into non-countable income, " says Andy Landis, founder of Thinking Retirement, a retirement-education website.

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  • For "countable" things use fewer.

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  • Green aficionados are familiar with the statistic that the sun bathes the Earth in trillions of barrels of energy (in oil equivalent terms), and less familiar with the fact that total known hydrocarbon resources are also countable in the trillions of barrels (from the oil-sands and ultra-deep-water sub-salt fields, to methane hydrates and coal, not to mention shale gas).

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  • Special needs trusts are non-countable assets and will allow your relative to qualify for benefits and programs if their financial situation changes in the future. (The victims of Bernie Madoff faced a rapidly changing financial future.) Also, these trust funds are most likely not subject to seizure or claims by creditors, so if your disabled relative is sued the funds would remain protected.

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