Employees who say they are not on track to retire tell us that retirement planning is their top financial priority followed closely by getting out of debt.
Providing access to financial services remains a high priority for the government.
Shoring up the banking and financial system must take first priority.
Rebuilding the country's economy in the face of the world financial crisis is also a priority, Noda said, adding that he did not want to see industries leave Japan or its debts mount any higher.
Given that the Labour Party, indeed all points left, have been arguing for decades that those other values must indeed be considered, even given priority over purely financial considerations, our conclusion simply has to be that they do not understand the effect of that new law that they propose.
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In other words, maintaining the City as the world leading financial centre is not their main priority.
Cyprus's newly elected President, Nicos Anastasiades, has promised to secure a financial bailout, saying his top priority is to restore the country's credibility.
With NOOK products performing superbly and expectations that online sales will continue to grow at stellar rates, markets gave priority to growth over financial performance.
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The housing downturn also prompted many homeowners to make paying their credit card accounts on time a priority ahead of other financial obligations, such as their mortgage payments.
Yes, of course it would be nice to sell 155 million copies of our book (I would be thrilled with 155 thousand copies) but imagine the impact of 155 million VOTERS if they demanded financial literacy be given the highest priority in our schools.
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Make cash management and debt reduction your top priority, and avoid overwhelming financial stress.
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"Our priority is to have accurate financial information, " Nortel chief executive and president Mike Zafirovski said.
When finance ministers, central bankers and economists descend on Washington for global economic meetings this weekend, their main priority is to restore confidence to financial markets.
However, the former Birmingham co-owner has said bolstering Zola's squad is a priority, despite the club's financial problems.
"When parents have so many competing demands for such limited amounts of financial resources, buying multivitamins may not take top priority, " worries Shaikh.
One priority, everyone agrees, is better financial education.
The priority for those framing Europe's new financial regulations should be to encourage rather than impede the emergence of new providers of finance, including insurers, mutual funds, specialist lenders or even larger companies in the supply chain.
Today seven different regulators have some responsibility for consumer financial protection, but none is focused on consumer protection as their priority.
Secondly, Ravitch stresses that New York must service its debt as a first priority, because it must keep open its acesss to the financial markets.
Awesome though the country's financial problems are, they are not the new prime minister's top priority.
The priority at the moment was to ensure stability in the banking and financial system, he said.
Nine areas of priority were highlighted, including reforming public administration, fiscal reform, financial liberalization to allow for more international bank participation in the Chinese economy, social welfare reform, urbanization, agriculture modernization, and technology and innovation.
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Another priority is the construction of a mechanism to wind down any failed financial giant, not just banks, so that officials no longer face an unenviable choice between bail-outs (AIG) and system-shaking collapse (Lehman Brothers).
The priority that ministers are attaching to reviving local democracy is reflected in the greater financial independence that they are prepared to grant local councils.
For esteemed financial experts like Shiller, there is a special responsibility to press for the obvious top-priority change: transparency in derivatives trading.
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Knight Ridder has always had a reputation for journalistic excellence as well as for making that value a priority over the bottom line--which is perhaps why Knight Ridder's financial performance has lagged that of its industry peers for years.
The paper - published by the Commission in February 2011 and known as "Horizon 2020" - sets out ways to give research and innovation priority in the EU's future funding guidelines, known as the Multi-annual Financial Framework (MFF).
There are, however, legitimate times when not investing in the 401(k) may be the best financial strategy not because the market is down, but because there is another urgent competing priority that, unless handled, would damage the ability to retire.
The priority he said should be to help the poorest of the poor - especially farmers facing myriad financial pressures.
"There has to be an honest discussion about the financial resources it takes to maintain these systems, " he said, adding that infrastructure needs to be a priority.
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