The Congress must also expand health savings accounts, create Association Health Plans for small businesses, promote health information technology, and confront the epidemic of junk medical lawsuits.

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Indeed, the anti-tax California Taxpayers Association says that the General Fund (which accounts for four-fifths of the total budget) can be balanced merely by restraining the growth in spending to 4.2%.

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In response, the British Bankers' Association (BBA) told BBC News that banks took the providing accounts for low income consumers seriously.

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But in the US, construction waste accounts for 50 per cent of all landfill material, according to the Construction Materials Recycling Association.

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Cameron, by comparison, took on a man, Coulson, who had been tarnished by association with criminality, and gave him a respectable (if serpentine) job, which by all accounts Coulson performed with aplomb.

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This type of financing has been dominated by the retail and garments industries, but has spread to other business sectors that have accounts receivable or other assets, according to Brian Cove, chief operating officer at the association, a New York-based trade group.

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Betfair, which allows clients to open accounts and bet online wherever they live, has similar arrangements with the Football Associationa, the Association of Tennis Professionals and the UK Jockey Club.

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