In the end, finance ministers were largely bystanders as others, including European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, negotiated the final deal.
Ofcom suspects, however, that in the end public finance may be needed, both to pay for ITV1's regional news and to transform Channel 4 into a highbrow BBC clone.
The scheme will be launched in 51 districts initially and will cover the entire country by the end of 2013, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said.
But the campaign foundered when the Maloofs couldn't raise sufficient cash to finance their end of the deal, creating an opening for Seattle, where another coalition of businessmen was ready to step in.
Wolf, Virginia Republican, who warned that opaque charitable transfers made by Shariah finance advisers could end up funding terrorists.
That is why French entrepreneurs are discouraged: they end up working only to finance the welfareship system, not for their own interests and improvement.
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To that end Pedro Malan, the Finance Minister, and Arminio Fraga, the new Central Bank chief, this week started a visit to Europe and New York.
"If we had a whiff of a return to pre-Keynesian finance we could end up with a crisis that mirrors the scale of the great depression, " he says.
"A vote for real campaign finance reform will end the corrosive influence of special interest money, and level the playing field so that all Americans can participate and be heard, " Pelosi said.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) Greece's recession-wracked economy should start recovering next year and its sky-high unemployment rate should edge lower from the end of 2014, the finance minister said in an interview broadcast Thursday.
With barely enough cash in its coffers to pay pensions and public-sector salaries at the end of August, the finance ministry may raise short-term funds by selling extra treasury bills to the banks, squeezing cash-strapped local companies even harder.
All candidates must disclose their contributions and spending with the Campaign Finance Board by the end of Wednesday.
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Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady is expected to sign off on these arrangements over the week-end as the G-7 Finance Ministers meet in Paris.
Greece's coalition government secured the latest tranche of bailout money at the end of last year, and Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told the BBC the worst was over for his country.
Morgan, the bank that came to dominate finance in America by the end of the 19th century.
The analysis is based on closed sales filed with the Department of Finance six days before the end of each quarter.
But prices have surged because of an acute shortgage of supply and strong demand from all types of purchasers, not just from those in the higher value end of the market or in the finance, media and technology sectors.
Firms that finance this equipment with borrowed money may end up paying a negative tax rate on the deal.
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Although the prime minister, Paul Martin, has had the top job only since the end of 2003, he gave a stellar performance as finance minister in the years before that, restoring order to public finances the Tories had left in chaos.
Hundreds of billions of dollars we finance with debt every year for imports with no end in sight.
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They should see how nations that sacrifice too much economic freedom for social security end up with neither, impairing both private enterprise and public finance.
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The quarterly sales figures are based on a preliminary analysis of data from the city Department of Finance, and include closings filed as of the end of the second month of each quarter.
The sudden movements highlight a volatile atmosphere in foreign exchange markets leading up to a summit of G20 finance ministers, which will be held at the end of the week amidst fears of a new round of "currency wars".
By creating a compliant Supreme Court, Mr Mugabe has side-stepped pressure to comply with a Commonwealth agreement struck in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, three months ago, under which Britain agreed to finance orderly land reform, in exchange for an end to farm grabs.
Its 10-year government bonds yielded about 7% at the end of March, prompting fears it would need outside aid to finance itself.
Finance Secretary John Swinney called on Chancellor George Osborne to "end the scandal of sky-high fuel prices", in a letter outlining the Scottish government's Budget demands.
The verdict brought an end to a messy proceeding, where the fine points of campaign-finance law were often overshadowed by witnesses crying on the stand or attorneys wrangling over how much could be said about a purloined sex tape or Ms. Hunter's menstrual cycle.
This week European finance ministers bravely postponed a vote on this awkward issue until the end of the month.
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The two Harvard Business School grads moved from finance to fashion with BaubleBar, which sources jewelry from high-end designers and sells it on the cheap via the Web.
From the end of the Second World War until 1980 or thereabouts, people working in finance earned about the same, on average and taking account of their qualifications, as people in other industries.
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