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Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf group are -- were affiliates of al Qaeda, to include sanctuary that was being provided for purposes of financing and other endeavors.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing with Ben Rhodes and Admiral Robert Willard
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The two firms are the industry leaders in the (once) lucrative business of providing hedge funds with financing, lending them shares for short-selling purposes, settling trades and housing fund assets.
ECONOMIST: Where will hedge funds put their business in future?
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They have borrowed not only for their own direct purposes to build public works and housing but also for enterprises known as local-government financing vehicles, whose businesses often have a low rate of return.
WSJ: Philip Bowring: China Needs a 1997-Style Crisis
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Such issues by state and local governments and authorities, many of them tax-exempt, are used for public purposes such as schools, sewers and water systems-financing projects often launched by elected officials and closely scrutinized by taxpayers.
WSJ: Goldman Officers Go on Charm Offensive
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Assuming Soviet earnings are earmarked for these two purposes, the West is -- through undisciplined lending practices -- unwittingly financing a large portion of the Soviet empire's remaining hard currency requirements at a multibillion dollar annual cost to Western taxpayers in higher defense and foreign assistance spending.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy