This has come as a huge relief to chief financial officers, who barely a year ago were having to make do without a fully functioning market for commercial paper (short-term loans to finance operating expenses).

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Separately, Italian prosecutors say they are investigating whether Franco Fiorito, the former party whip for People of Freedom in Lazio, used taxpayer funds to finance personal expenses for other regional councilors and to pay for his own island vacation.

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Family gifts that finance the living expenses of a college student who otherwise appears in the statistics as a low income household are also not counted, again exaggerating income inequality, or at least differences in standard of living.

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As a result, the DIA has been asking donors each year to finance more than half of its operating expenses, a model that is simply not sustainable.

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Payroll taxes finance only about half of overall Medicare expenses.

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Although the reforms so far have created more work for finance departments, as well as higher accounting expenses, the direct impact on executives and directors hasn't been particularly troublesome.

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The magic includes the launching of nine models and will finance the average 8% pay hike just given and the all-expenses-paid trek to Macau and Hong Kong that the 200 best dealers will get in July.

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The court was told by Jonathan Smith, a finance office at the House of Lords, that 90% of peers claimed expenses and of that 90%, 85% claimed the maximum amount.

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