The technique, adapted from Wall Street risk management strategies, uses data from thousands of films to predict the outcome of any given movie, taking into account budget, stars, release date and genre.
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Budget constraints probably account for Rome's surprisingly meager population and a Volsci army that seems to number about two dozen, but you can't argue with the talent in the foreground: Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain and Gerard Butler don't misplace a single syllable between them.
Investors are too complacent about inflation and about America's enormous budget and current-account imbalances.
Another risk lies in the fact that America depends on China to help finance its budget and current-account deficits.
Large current account and budget deficits suggest that the dollar has further to go on the downside, says Hesler.
America would resist, because losing its reserve-currency status would raise the cost of financing its budget and current-account deficits.
The OBR will issue a new set of figures at the Budget, taking into account the coalition government's new tax and spending plans.
After reviewing his own family's finances, Jenkins came up with a faster and easier way to structure their budget without having to account for every penny.
Rajoy, in order to avoid losing face with his constituency that is already suffering the slings and arrows of an intense economic crisis, developed a budget that took into account recommendations from European authorities and further austerity.
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Thus, the picture starts to look rather like the one that led Professor Kennedy to make his premature judgment: twin budget and current-account deficits raising the cost of money and making the dollar volatile, while politicians and voters start to wonder whether they have taken on too much.
Put another way, residential heating and air conditioning constitute 11.88 percent of the U.S. energy budget: cars only account for 8.9 percent. (see spread sheets 2.2 and 2.6) Worse, a good portion of that energy is wasted: lights get left on, air conditioners churn when you are on vacation, sleeping notebooks suck vampire power.
Superficially, there is some basis for the official view that the worst of the crisis is over: Interest-rate spreads, current-account deficits and budget deficits are down.
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The council said it had taken the expected profit from the scheme into account in the budget for the current financial year, investing it in subsidised bus routes.
See which government bonds have low debt-to-GDP, preferably under 30%, with low budget deficits and a current account surplus or strong current account balance in a country that is growing at least 3% GDP annually.
They will also be responsible for holding their local police forces to account and setting the budget, including the council tax precept.
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Yes, the 2012 London Olympics budget had to be adjusted to account for over-optimistic prediction, but if the human spirit were not optimistic, would there be anyone around to participate in the actual Games?
Yet they have never made the Joint Tax Committee or the Congressional Budget Office change their rules to take account of how worker and investor behavior changes when tax rates change.
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Imagine a family trying to get their household budget under control that forgot to take into account the interest paid on their home mortgage.
You can then include those amounts in your monthly budget and set them aside in a savings account so the money will be there when you need it.
That includes the personal account bills introduced by now House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan in 2004 and 2005, and the bill introduced by Rep. Thaddeus McCotter last September.
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"You have a budget deficit that is ballooning, a current account deficit deteriorating and you have investments both local and international at a standstill, you know taking a wait and see approach, " says El-Khazindar.
Even more worrying, in the short term, is that alarming statistic I flagged up last week: the Office for Budget Responsibility expects us to run a current account deficit of 4% of GDP in 2012.
Dr Lee said some evidence suggested diabetes treatments could account for a quarter of the NHS budget by 2025.
Germany's EU partners reckon that a country with a budget close to balance and a big current-account surplus could do more.
Earmarks -- pork projects, what everybody calls pork -- those account for about 1 percent of the budget, less than 1 percent.
And, Wendell, we -- I hazard to guess what your question would be if we didn't take into account any of that in what our budget was.
But earmarks account for about 1 percent of the budget.
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Last week, his campaign confirmed that, if necessary, Mr da Silva would be ready to tighten policy and to run a larger primary budget surplus (before interest payments are taken into account) in order to ensure that Brazil can meet its debt obligations.
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