It's pretty thin considering its budget status, and the tapered edges on the top and bottom provide us with a firm and steady grip.
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Voters have every reason to be skeptical of Republican promises, but Mr. Ryan's budget is hardly a status quo document.
For David Cameron the EU Budget has taken on totemic status.
"Obama's hope for a second term is that the pressure will build because of the need to act on the budget and unwillingness to live with the status quo, " Mann said.
It's no secret that phone makers pull out all of their snazzy design ideas for high-end flagship products, but we've been pleasantly surprised to see that many manufacturers aren't simply maintaining the status quo when it comes to budget devices either.
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In effect, for all of the recent over-the-top budget drama, the deal preserves the unsustainable fiscal status quo, which is to say Congress will continue to spend far more than it is willing to collect in taxes.
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America would resist, because losing its reserve-currency status would raise the cost of financing its budget and current-account deficits.
And with the governors of the school under pressure from Whitehall to convert to academy status, almost half the council's budget could disappear.
"I think Dick Gephardt has made a real error in calculating his possibilities for the year 2000 if that's what he's doing, " Kemp said, referring to Gephardt's recent attacks on the budget deal and extending most-favored-nation trade status to China.
More recently, thanks to his status first as the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee and then as its chairman, he has been able to put a series of fiscal plans to a vote, winning the support of the vast majority of Republican congressmen.
Clients expect on-demand, self-service access to the status of projects, the burn rate of the budget, and so on.
But there are fears that the failure of the budget talks could harm the Netherlands' prized AAA credit rating status and the low yield on government bonds.
The big rating agencies have been firing shots across the bow of the ship of state in Washington, but any moves to strip the U.S. of its AAA status will likely wait until after the government announces budget cuts next month.
At the same time, it became clear that the lock-box was popular with voters, who decided they did not want their contributions frittered away on current spending (no one pointed out that in fact this is not what happens: the budget debate does not affect the rights of pensioners or the status of the trust fund).
Moody's, a rating agency, has cut its credit status to a notch above junk, worried that measures to tackle its budget deficit will not last.
Iueun Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru's Group Leader) asked whether west Wales and the Valleys will qualify for Objective One status, and whether the First Minister is backing the Treasury's regional budget rate, or the Commission's.
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Last week the Independent Budget Review panel called on ministers to "urgently review" the public-owned body's status.
The budget bill also includes money to investigate whether green charities are engaging in political activities incompatible with their status.
Parliament, albeit rowdily and unevenly, has resumed its functions, passing a budget for the first time in five years and debating long-festering issues, such as the legal status of Lebanon's 250, 000 Palestinian refugees, hitherto shamefully barred from owning property or practising many professions.
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