Called hawala in India, hundi in Pakistan and Afghanistan and chop in China, the systems share two characteristics.
In San Antonio, school district administrators have decided to slash staff travel budgets by 75% and chop in half the budget for buying equipment such as desks and computers.
In the 19th Century chop houses opened in cities and office workers were given one hour for lunch.
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This time, he has an addition to his stable: a flying craft, with two enclosed rotors underneath, which allow it to dink around tall buildings and, presumably, to chop vegetables in the event that Alfred wants to make a pot-au-feu.
In the end, he said, you want a rough chop with pieces ranging in size from that of a currant to that of a cherry pit.
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It will be done on 20 dedicated state-of-the-art Illumina and Life Technologies instruments that CHOP and BGI have installed at the new Joint Genome Center there, and BGI bioinformaticians will log in to a CHOP server to analyze the data remotely from China.
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First, it was protecting the quarterbacks and eliminating chop blocks and blocks in the back.
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Hospitals often prefer to chop a bill down in percentage terms rather than fight over individual charges.
One of the things I love about Chris is that I could go out in the yard and chop wood with nothing on but a pair of men's boxer shorts and it wouldn't phase him in the least.
If good greens are attached to your turnip bunch, chop them up and toss them in the pot.
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For example, I can dice and chop much better (more consistent in terms of size no matter how fine) than a food processor albeit not as fast.
The loans are sold to banks, which then chop them up and repackage them in securities, complete with ratings and tranches to appeal to different types of investors.
Forming more teams in large markets would chop down the television revenue of now-dominant teams such as the New York Yankees , making it harder for them to buy the best ballplayers.
"Niman Ranch, " says Kotler, as her dining companion slices a pork chop at Woodward's Garden restaurant in San Francisco.
We made it across without difficulty, but on the return leg we got caught in a riptide near East Chop lighthouse and started taking on water.
There is sure to be speculation as to who will now be for the chop, but Ferguson has been firm in his support for Juan Sebastian Veron and Laurent Blanc, who have received most criticism this season.
Their lives ended in places called Belleau Wood, The Argonne, Omaha Beach, Salerno and halfway around the world on Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Pork Chop Hill, the Chosin Reservoir, and in a hundred rice paddies and jungles of a place called Vietnam.
Under the plans, MPs would "seldom, if ever" face the chop, the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee predicted in its latest report.
But in Rome the challenge is not to chop and squeeze the language into new shapes, but to translate modern words into the full, but precise, complexity that Latin requires.
American said last week that by offering early boarding to passengers who are traveling light, with only a carry-on bag that fits under the seat in from of them, it can chop two minutes off the time it takes to board a narrowbody aircraft.
In addition, he often used the hand chop, palm-down, and the smooth broad gestures that signal certainty and authority.
Where Mr Bush sketches in broad preferences, Mr Hague has seemed to chop and change.
Amazing to think that I lay awake worrying about him, when I should have known in my silly heart that I was for the chop.
" Even Joyce's wife, Nora, once referred in her letters to "Finnegans Wake" as "that chop suey you're writing" and once asked him, "Why don't you write sensible books that people can understand?
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Then they would help you use a two-man crosscut saw to chop off a piece of wood from a tree stump they had spray painted in red with the Old Spice logo.
But if it became clear that Mr Duncan Smith was for the chop, Messrs Howard and Letwin could well be the nearest the party can get in present circumstances to a dream ticket.
Illegal logging in the Mau is the cause, and now 15% of it is for the chop.
Then, in the 1980s, the state developed a green bug, and decided it shouldn't chop down Mother Nature for a living.
Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines.
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