Would Cheng please use her formidable fund-raising machine to help finance 2, 000 temporary homes?

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Fortunately for Mr Brown, the healthy state of the public finances means that he does not have to rely upon such temporary gains to finance any tax cuts.

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In a statement issued on Wednesday, the ministry of finance insisted the capital control measures were temporary and were needed to "safeguard the stability of the system".

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Among the five Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) candidates for party leadership, and the office of prime minister, Noda, having served for two years as minister or deputy minister of finance, was the only one to advocate a temporary tax increase to fund 3.11 disaster recovery and reconstruction.

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Every small business owner knows that the laws of finance will allow negative cash to be augmented with debt as a temporary means to an end, but not as a long-term way of life.

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Assembly Finance Minister Sue Essex has given the site - now known as Middleton - a temporary lifeline to keep it open for another month.

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