In early October the Treasury released a pre-election economic and fiscal update indicating that after 14 years in surplus the budget balance was set to slip into deficit.
"We look to maintain a strong balance sheet as set out in our financial framework, " a BP spokesman said.
Mr Darling has also stuck broadly to his plan to bring the public finances back into balance, first set out a year ago and then made tougher in the budget.
How do we balance that with some set of skills and knowledge that will allow them to compete?
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"Improving relations with Iran will establish Egypt's leading role in the region and set a balance between the Sunni-Shiite religious presence, " Allam said.
But, he said, the current system "penalised people who are wanting to stay together" and that he was "trying to re-set the balance".
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He recalls that the Washington march was organised around a call for jobs as well as freedom, suggesting that, so long as white bosses discriminate against blacks in hiring, government has a responsibility to set the balance right.
If you forget the set the white balance on your camera, photo-editing software can easily fix that.
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What appears to be equity on the balance-sheet of one set of government-controlled entities is really just debt on another.
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Thankfully, there's a decent selection of tweaks you can play around with, including exposure, contrast, saturation, sharpness, and a set of white balance presets.
To that end, several off-balance-sheet entities were set up.
Dedicated picture modes for film and gaming: In addition to the default adaptive picture mode, these new modes provide gamers with lightning-fast responsiveness and film lovers with white balance just like the director set it.
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More importantly, this controversy should remind all of us that, when debating government regulations, we should be humble, because it is often difficult to set a proper balance between helping consumers while at the same time allowing businesses to prosper.
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Workers Wayne Tomlinson, Alice Ballesteros and Gary Muckelroy brought the suit in 2004, arguing that by switching its defined benefit pension plan from a final average pay formula to a cash balance formula, El Paso set payments for older, longer-service employees at significantly lower levels.
Should it be based on our ranks, a set price, maintaining balance, or simply communal sharing?
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Two world-class universities, Stanford and Berkeley, seeped in a balance of engineering and the humanities set the original stage out of which successful innovation emerged.
His several Harry Potter films demonstrate he can tackle a huge franchise with a global fanbase, a big ensemble cast, lots of complex subplots, spectacular action set pieces, and balance the family-friendly appeal with serious dramatic elements.
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To finance the off-balance-sheet assets, the government set deposit interest rates at very low levels: 1% or so.
Banks set up their off-balance sheet vehicles in response to capital rules.
These are set to ensure a broad balance between overall supply and demand over the medium term (the next two years or so) thus keeping the economy on a path consistent with price stability.
That is why I believe we need to do more than just recover from this economic crisis -- we need to rebuild the economy the American way, based on balance, fairness, and the same set of rules for everyone from Wall Street to Main Street.
In a cash-balance plan, the company contributes a set amount of salary for each worker every year to a theoretical account for him (even though the money is actually managed in one big pot), and then credits his account with some guaranteed annual return--typically the yield on 30-year Treasuries.
The large characters, heroes and villains alike, do set the scales on which we balance progress.
That will weigh on corporate balance sheets, many of which were never set in order after the region's financial crisis of 1997-98.
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It simply describes a set of transactions on a national balance sheet.
"In the 1967 Act what Parliament set out to do was to balance two objectives, conscious that abortion was a controversial matter, " he said.
The days when any large-ish bank could set up shop, load its balance sheet with debt and become an also-ran in anything from bond underwriting to complex derivatives are over.
On Friday, the Bank of Scotland's business barometer showed the balance of companies enjoying rising revenue, when set against those with falling revenue, was at its best for three years.
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