The agency would also play a role in setting an annual cap for "W" visas.
In 2004, the annual cap reverted to 65, 000 and the separate advanced degree cap was created.
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The number of allowances will have an annual cap, starting at approximately 2.04 billion a year in 2013.
That act - which applies to England, Scotland and Wales - introduces an annual cap on benefits and overhauls many welfare payments.
The legislation, which introduces an annual cap on housing benefits, has had a stormy passage through the House of Lords.
The EB-2 is available to foreigners with exceptional ability, or an advanced degree, and has an annual cap of 40, 000.
While McCain's proposal sets an annual cap on suits against the tobacco industry, any cap will be a point of contention.
The annual cap on the total amount of tax relief will, says everyone from charity chief executives to the Tories' wealthy Treasurer, cut the donations charities receive.
Even if a third runway at Heathrow is eventually ruled out, environmental campaigners are understandably suspicious that the new 480, 000 annual cap on flight movements will be breached.
Frustrated by the annual cap on H-1B visas and its impact on business, large companies have responded by setting up operations outside of the U.S. to fill this need.
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Policies on immigration and Europe show signs of struggle and fudge, but the Tory annual cap on non-European migrants survives and the Lib Dems' amnesty for those already in Britain does not.
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If there's a darker note here, it's that Congress remains uninterested in keeping those foreign students in the country once we've invested in their training -- witness the annual cap of H-1B work visas at 65, 000.
But she refrained from taking the logical next step of calling for an increase in the overall annual visa cap.
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It would also cap annual out-of-pocket expenses and prevent insurance companies from denying coverage for pre-existing conditions.
At the same time East Kalimantan, where Bayan operates, is considering plans to cap annual coal output in an effort to promote alternative energy and cut back on the damage coal mining has done to the environment.
Barrick is an industry bellwether, the largest gold producer in the world by market cap and annual production.
In a public-relations coup, Blue Shield of California announced that it would cap its annual profits at 2%, rebating anything left over to its customers.
In addition to subsidy cuts, the buyers were unhappy with a cap on annual loan repayments at a percentage of each borrower's income, protecting graduates with low salaries from having to pay back more than they can afford.
Florida voters approved property tax relief to low-income seniors (Amendment 11) and for veterans and their surviving spouses (Amendments 2 and 9) but rejected a freebie (Amendment 4) that would have cut in half from 10% to 5% the cap on annual changes to property tax assessments for non-homesteaders aka snowbirds.
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One of the policy positions in the leaked policy paper in Valor is supposedly a move to limit to the growth of federal operating expenses and pass a bill that would also cap the annual growth of spending on salaries of civil servants, namely politicians in the capital, which historically tend to give themselves double digit raises.
According to Ibbotson, the compound annual returns for large-cap stocks and long-term government bonds have been 9.6% and 5.7%, respectively.
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The annual fire sale of small-cap stocks may be happening several weeks early, which could give savvy investors a ground-floor entry point.
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With managed care and preferred provider plans, benefits for this out-of-network care may be limited, but your annual out-of-pocket cap should still apply.
Last month the folks who run the benchmark Russell 2000 small-cap index did their annual reconstitution--replacing 377 of the 2, 000 companies that had outgrown or become too small to fit the index.
He will also boost taxes on financial income, scrap exemptions from the annual wealth tax, end stock options and cap bonuses.
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EMC's ten-year shareholder returns are pretty lousy (-13% annualized), but in the past five years Tucci beat all but four of his big-cap tech peers with 10% annual earnings growth.
Since Patrick Kelly took over all-cap Spectra N (SPECX) in September 2004, the fund has returned the annual equivalent of 20.3% vs. 15.2% for the average mid-cap growth fund.
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