An even bigger risk for taxpayers is that elected officials will assume unrealistically high returns to rationalize skimping on contributions to the fund.
The Netherlands and Spain are cutting their contributions to the Global Fund, one of the two main distributors of the life-saving drugs (the other is Mr Bush's brainchild, PEPFAR), and Italy has stopped paying altogether.
The revised fund has received 79, 000 individual contributions, according to the fund's trustees.
Regardless of what happens to the contributions, O'Mara intends to open a legal defense fund for his client, he said.
Add in the big contributions that employers must make to China's national security fund system and the total cost of an employee can be double his basic pay.
Ms. Petsod is helping a variety of foundations pool resources, including one group that is creating an online fund for contributions to cover the cost of the application.
The minimum investment to buy into a fund is typically small and it's easy to set up automatic contributions and to split the money among several types of funds.
And nearly a third of the ones that are still open to existing staff will be changed in some way it predicted, either by being closed to further contributions by current employees, or by the benefits of the schemes being made less generous and thus cheaper to fund.
Hellman was also known for generous contributions to the San Francisco Free Clinic, the San Francisco Education Fund and The Bay Citizen.
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Despite these names, it is interesting to note that contributions are not actually designated for the Medicare Trust fund.
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As pension-fund contributions will almost certainly have to be resumed when the bull market ends, this probably paints a misleading impression of the long-term trend ofprofitability.
By seeking contributions, bequests, and inter vivos gifts, the Fund seeks to aid juniors and seniors in college, who are descendants of immigrants in the performing arts, with financial aid to help insure success in either college or vocational school.
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Payroll contributions and taxes now flow into a single fund, which distributes the money to insurers according to the number and needs of the patients they enrol.
The paper kept a running tally of contributions, and between March-August 1885 it chronicled every donation to the Statue of Liberty fund.
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Surprisingly, the IRS has never publicly ruled on whether legal defense fund contributions are income to a politician.
One of the wonders of the modern world is that his major contributions are available to be perused or downloaded from the institute bearing his name or from the Liberty Fund.
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Three factors determine the health of any pension fund: asset returns, company contributions and the discount rate, which is used to calculate the present value of pension liabilities and is tied to interest rates.
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