The U.S. keeps 30, 000 troops in Korea to deal with the threats on that peninsula, which are of direct interest to Japan.
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Now, if you would like to declare a direct interest, I would be happy to take this into account.
So we went out and invested a lot in technology and then in a lead handling platform that allowed us to tap into that customer interest and then direct potential customers to our channel partners.
The solution they seem to miss resides in a direct appeal to business self-interest, emphasizing how and why Wall Street and its corporate brethren ought to pursue reputational strategies because doing so will generate prophylactic benefits as well as bottom-line enhancements short-term and long.
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One idea being bandied about entails replacing the tax exclusion for interest on state and local bonds with a direct subsidy to the issuer of 15% for the interest paid on those bonds.
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In addition to cutting the funds rate, the Fed announced it was reducing its discount rate, the interest it charges to make direct loans to banks, by a quarter-point, as well, to 4.75 percent.
However, it is likely to use this feature to direct ads based on user interest and, in the process, charge a higher amount for these targeted ads.
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If America wants to help him, which is almost certainly in its interest to do, the most direct way would be an offer on moderating or reinterpreting sanctions.
The new law doesn't (as Reformamt had hoped it would) waive penalties or interest for these losers or even direct the IRS to cut them any special break.
The Fed's decision means that the discount rate, the interest rate that the Fed charges to make direct loans to banks will be lowered to 5.75 percent from 6.25 percent.
Money should be direct-deposited from your paycheck to a money market or interest-bearing savings account.
So last week's unexpected interest-rate cut by the Fed was of direct help to Argentina.
Project managers have recently expressed interest in reconfiguring the effort to offer a more direct line for a series of regional wells to the rest of Europe by way of Greece.
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The higher interest rates charged by microfinance companies are perceived to be in direct opposition to original intent of the movement.
Some of it is in the form of loans, SBA long term low interest loans but there are also direct grants that you do not have to repay if you qualify, unemployment compensation, rents as you try to find a new place to live.
To make matters worse, consumers lack expertise in health care, and make their health care purchases on the advice of their chosen doctors and specialists, who not only also have no incentive to control costs, but, rather, have a direct financial interest in them spending more.
The international press focuses on increases in interest rates and bank reserve ratios, but Chinese officials are relying on more direct measures to keep prices in check.
Slow to raise interest rates, China's authorities have clamped down on investment by more direct means.
Investors will have to weigh for themselves whether that stream of dividend income is enough to offset some of the negatives of investing in a company but not having a direct ownership interest in the deals it is negotiating.
Like BABs, AFF Bonds would be conventional taxable bonds issued by State and local governments in which the Federal government makes direct payments to State and local governmental issuers in a subsidy amount equal to 28 percent of the coupon interest on the bonds.
It is also an uncontested fact based on direct testimony that it was Monica Lewinsky who, on December 28, 1997, expressed her interest in wanting to hide the gifts when she said to the President that maybe she should transfer the gifts to Betty Currie.
Dow believes that the direct connection between their scientific community, education at all levels, and these generations is key to building that interest, passion and enthusiasm.
The FBI apparently found the transaction to be of investigative interest because, depending on the identity of the intermediary party, it could indicate direct assistance from al Aulaqi to al Hazmi.
Under the original BABs program, the Treasury Department makes direct subsidy payments to State and local governmental issuers in a subsidy amount equal to 35 percent of the coupon interest on the bonds.
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