Now, you cannot - even if the Lib Dems allowed it - introduce a regional benefit cap, or end housing benefit for under-25s and so on - because there is not the time left.
It came as he defended his plans to cut spending and end child benefit for higher rate taxpayers.
Or does what happened with Zynga merely begin and end with the benefit of the doubt and the standard ambulance-chasing class action lawsuits?
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They also warned that people who responded to the benefit cut by leaving social housing could end up claiming more housing benefit in the costlier private sector.
Paradoxically, connectors often end up getting more benefit than non-connectors, despite their emphasis on giving.
And, in the end, retailers would benefit.
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Further, the decline of the private sector union movement and the end of the defined benefit retirement plans that were once provided to workers as a part of their employment package have only served to make the problem worse.
Analysts expected claims to increase by 9, 000 to 400, 000 for the week, leading to some questions about what a large number of unemployed Americans have done: whether it be giving up on looking for work, coming to the end of their unemployment benefit period, or indeed, found jobs.
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And in the end only the West may benefit from the research, if Africans cannot afford the new drugs.
Any such rewriting would, of course, end up being to the benefit of those who write said rules, the politicians.
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"We are consistently executing our end-to-end solutions strategy for the benefit of our customers, " said Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO.
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Their work supported the low-end estimate of a net benefit from immigration of about one quarter of 1% of national income.
If it is positive, as the Duke data proves, then we know that 4 months is low end of the median survival benefit of Provenge.
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China appeared to hit bottom in late 2012, and I expect a rebound in Chinese demand to benefit high-end luxury firms in general and high-end autos in particular.
The impact to the rest of the market will be to raise the bar on graphics as a whole, which can only benefit high-end graphics makers like NVIDIA and AMD.
The risk is that projects spend too long being scrutinised before getting the support they need and that for all the fanfare this week, in the end very few projects actually benefit.
The greater danger is that the people who can benefit from them might end up neglected themselves.
Argentina would benefit hugely from an end to rich-country barriers to farm trade.
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The end result should be more overall benefit and much lower cost.
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Because Dish has targeted low-end consumers, the company should benefit if an improving economy encourages subscribers to pay more instead of shopping for better deals or canceling services.
Although some individual companies offer a paid maternity leave benefit, many parents end up using a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, personal days and unpaid family leave.
The upper end is 14 months of median benefit.
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And that was despite some firms boosting spending to exploit a temporary tax benefit that expired at the end of the year.
On Sunday, Foreign Secretary William Hague told the BBC people should not be attracted to the UK just by the benefits available and "benefit tourism" had to end.
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