Such services meet needs of community in general and these do not take into account individual households (expenditures on defence, government, roads, scientific activity financed from the State budget and extra-budget funds, communal services and services of institutions serving agriculture).

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First, as in past downturns, weapons accounts are being hit harder than other categories of military activity in the initial wave of budget cuts.

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The direct way fracking can reduce the budget is by stimulating economic activity and thus tax revenues.

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The budget came against the background of a sharp contraction in economic activity, far greater than that experienced in other euro-area countries.

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The 2013 cuts also almost fall halfway through the fiscal year which began back on October 1, and the cuts fall on the smallest pieces of the budget on what is known as the program-project-activity (PPA) level.

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