The Public Accounts Committee said that as a result of the practice, parliament was not being given a full picture of the expense incurred by massive purchases.

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The net interest income it earns on these investment is the difference between the interest revenue on interest-earning assets and the interest expense incurred on interest-bearing liabilities.

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The American public would be spared the profound fatigue that has already set in, not to mention the vast expense being incurred.

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"Rather than helping us as a small business we have incurred extra expense at a time when we could have done without it, " she said.

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Worse, it didn't own up to the spending, resulting in a slap, in the fall of 2000, from the Ontario Securities Commission, which told Pearl to expense costs as they were incurred, instead of recording them at the conclusion of a case.

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As we, at last, come to the end of the 35 college football bowl games, I would note that part of the expense of producing these ball throwing contests was incurred by the students and their parents currently attending college through tuition or activity fees.

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