Giving money to private-equity managers, who then use debt to acquire quoted companies, is viewed in an entirely different light but amounts to the same gamble.
Under a former Offshore Voluntary Compliance Initiative (OVCI) announced by the IRS in January 2003, the IRS provided taxpayers who missed that initiative with a "last chance" opportunity to reduce penalties below their statutory maximum amounts but above the amounts offered in the OVCI program.
At the same time, Ms. Palin's political action committee is raising decent but unspectacular amounts.
But that amounts to the sin of smugness, not dreams of playing Athens to America's Rome.
But that amounts to only half the frame rate HDTV broadcasts use in their 720-pixel progressive format.
At first Nixon tried devaluation, but the amounts were far too small to stop the gold drain.
All this is encouraging for Lula, but it amounts to a reprieve rather than a full recovery.
Compared to typical sports drinks, coconut water has fewer calories, less sodium, but higher amounts of potassium.
But the amounts they are spending to build Web sites offer clues to how they see the future.
The scanty winter rainfall is brought by Mediterranean depressions, but the amounts are rather variable from year to year.
But increasingly amounts are being targeted on radio, direct mail, and Internet appeals.
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But the amounts they give are not enough for Mr Frank's purposes.
Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
After all, what is intuition at its best but large amounts of data of all kinds filtered through a human brain rather than a math model?
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), described Gomez's decision as unprecedented, but it amounts to a mere slap on the wrist long after the fact.
That may be far fewer than the 8m-12m people that the federal migration service estimates are working in Russia illegally, but it amounts to far more than have been handed out before.
"There are small but significant amounts of these foods on the Australian market -- around 1000 tonnes per annum, which accounts for only 0.2 per cent of beef consumed annually in Australia, " Smallwood said.
By 2008, the city stopped restaurants from using all but trace amounts of transfats, and Mr. Bloomberg recently won some success in convincing global food companies to lower the amount of sodium in prepackaged products.
Billions are already made from in-game purchases of virtual items that are little more than code, but with amounts like this being shelled out, we could see a bigger push toward virtual goods being worth real money.
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He said a minimum price would allow people to drink "reasonable amounts" but would "particularly hit those who are buying huge amounts and would hopefully try to deal with the issue of supermarkets discounting and leading to lots of local pubs closing".
But taking large amounts off the top seems to tinker with incentives in a most unpleasant way.
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But it hardly amounts to the sort of serious flaws in the investment process that could count as negligence.
The Afghan president has admitted his office received secret payments from the US, but says the amounts were small and used legitimately.
Defence spending would be lower than previous budgets passed by the House, but higher than amounts expected if the sequester remains in place.
An early symptom of B12 deficiency is anaemia, but taking large amounts of folic acid treats the anaemia without treating the B12 deficiency.
China has been a net rice importer for several years, but sends some amounts of rice elsewhere, including to the U.S. and Hong Kong.
These may sound trivial amounts but 4 sq m is equivalent to having a sofa and small computer table in your house, Riba argues.
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