Even Lady Thatcher, who allowed the value of unemployment benefits to languish during her time in office, did not actually cut them or impose limits on their duration.
Their scarcity value has allowed privileged airlines such as British Airways to make huge sums out of them: surplus slots are traded behind the scenes for hundreds of millions of pounds.
Low Value Consignment Relief, which allowed companies based in the Channel Islands to send low value goods to the UK without paying VAT, was abolished in April 2012.
This has made them less risky and allowed them to keep their value.
This has allowed Apple to create a market value that actually exceeds Microsofts.
The Mortgage Bankers Association and other banking lobbies campaigned vigorously against the proposal, which would have allowed judges to write down the value of mortgages.
They include raising stamp duties by five to seven percentage points, increasing down-payment requirements, and lowering the amount some home buyers are allowed to borrow relative to the value of the property they are purchasing.
The rising value of financial assets has allowed many firms to reduce, or even skip, their annual pension-fund contributions, boosting profits.
In recent years, areas where the relationship has been strained include the loss of Low Value Consignment Relief, which allowed certain items to be sent to UK VAT-free, the ending of reciprocal health agreements and the clampdown on tax evasion, the latest move being announced in the UK budget.
Refinancing a home will be allowed only up to 80% of its value, down from 85%.
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From 2005 to 2011, the Chinese government has allowed the renminbi (RMB) to increase in value by more than 25%.
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But the insidious culture that allowed Wall Street firms to peddle securities of dubious value to pension funds and charitable endowments remains largely in place.
If allowed, it could transform agriculture by increasing the nutritional value of crops and making them easier to grow.
Normally, you would be allowed to deduct only what you paid over the market value of the dinner or auction booty.
And he added it would lead to the "driving up" of quality and value for money as good services will be allowed to thrive.
Where have you compromised a value you held dear, because doing so allowed you to avoid something unpleasant or feed your ego in some way?
For example, the telephone, the computer, and the Internet were all major productivity boosters, they allowed individuals to serve much wider audiences and create more value.
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They must be allowed to go in unexpected directions, even as they create value for their parents.
Banks are allowed some leeway to use computer models in gauging the real value of assets that, for whatever reason, aren't trading.
It should be the audit committee, not management, that decides whether an auditor should be allowed to carry out non-audit work over a certain value.
Put simply, the mass destruction of farming jobs allowed for the redirection of precious human capital toward more productive, higher value work.
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Lincecum has proven to have significant value to the Giants beyond the starting rotation and it has allowed him to work from a different mindset as a reliever.
But the deal, in very Brazilian fashion, allowed working civil servants to draw a pension of up to the same value as the proposed maximum wage, in effect doubling their maximum earnings.
One of the first acts of the US Congress after the new US Constitution was the Coinage Act of 1792 allowed for the minting of both gold and silver coins at a face value ratio of 15:1.
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Each factory is allowed to engage in increasing specialization, so that they can create more and more value.
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The payment scheme also allowed him to design the clinic around the things that sick, expensive patients most need and value, rather than the ones that pay the best.
The SEC said that when the value of those bonds began to decline in late 2007, they had "abandoned their obligation to accurately record the fair value of their bonds and instead began to price the bonds in a way that allowed them to achieve their goal of showing consistently profitable trading".
At which point, presumably, the rest of the eurozone would have to accept a Greek default and a much more significant reduction in the value of what the country has to repay than the implied 21% that has been allowed so far.
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