Our entitlement programs, the tax reform we need, the tax expenditures that are an issue, the defense spending that is an issue -- that is not the box in which we are now deciding the funding for six months of the year.
All that said, the big message of the results for the first six months of the year is that - although Barclays is in the uncomfortable position of looking for a new chief executive and chairman, because of the damage to its reputation caused by the LIBOR scandal - its profits are holding up better than some rivals around the world.
Or if you want to put it in another way, we have just accelerated the schedule, and we're looking at what are good numbers for the first quarter that used to be good numbers for the whole six months of the year before the election.
European banks have been hit particularly hard with Barclays saying this morning that it will cut about 3, 000 jobs this year after reporting a a 38% drop in profit for the first six months of the year.
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For six months out of the year we buy our vegetables from an organic farm 20 miles away.
That means if she goes on the road for the last six months of the year, she could be filling 30, 000- and 35, 000-seat venues.
This week it said operating profits for the first six months of the year would fall by 23%, mainly due to an abysmal performance in French hypermarkets (France accounts for 44% of the group's sales).
Imperial was allowed to suspend the reporting of its waiting times for planned operations to the government for the first six months of this year, in an unprecedented move, because the problems had resulted in a backlog.
Richemont expects its sales and operating profit for the first six months of this year to be significantly higher than the comparative period.
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Retail sales have grown from just 9% of net sales in 2003 to 68% for the first six months of this year.
While farmers receive around the same price for rubber as they do for cocoa, the former produces a crop for almost 10 months of the year, compared with just six months for cocoa, say analysts.
Already the dominance of chocolate may be feeding through on this level, as Cadbury's gross margin for the first six months of 2009 fell 0.2% over the year.
The results augur similar fates for other banks that have benefited in the first six months of the year from strong trading, including Lehman Bros. (nyse: LEH - news - people ), Bear Stearns (nyse: BSC - news - people ) and Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ), all of which will report in the coming days their fiscal third quarters ending in August.
One social worker received a jail sentence of one year with six months suspended for failing to report the sexual abuse on some of the youngsters.
Its interim results for the six months to the end of February showed a 20% fall in revenue from the same period last year.
Earlier this week Kezia Dugdale, Labour's youth employment spokeswoman, said four out of 10 young people offered places last year had already been working for more than six months and she accused the government of letting young people down.
Of the over 13 million people who were unemployed at the end of August, 40% were without a job for over six months according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and 29% were without a job for more than a year, near the all-time high.
Ad pages for Sports Illustrated were down 5% in the last six months of last year, according to the Publishers Information Bureau, and the magazine's parent, Time Inc.
Last year Indian gold-buying briefly dropped for six months, but then it roared back in the second half of the year.
"In the first six months of the year, we seized three guns for every gun seized in Los Angeles and nine guns for every gun confiscated by the New York Police Department, " Mr McCarthy said.
Republican Tim O'Connell, a state representative, says he thinks it is at least six months, if not a year, too early for the current level of intensity and activity.
And while Apple's iPod accounted for 71% of U.S. unit sales during the first six months of this year, according to NPD Group, down from 76% during the same period last year, SanDisk was a very distant, but still impressive, second, with 10%, share, up from 9% a year earlier.
And while Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) iPod accounted for 71% of U.S. unit sales during the first six months of this year, according to NPD Group, down from 76% during the same period last year, SanDisk was a very distant, but still impressive, second, with 10%, share, up from 9% a year earlier.
Ministers are committed to reducing waiting times for NHS operations to 12 months by the end of next year and to just six months by 2005.
The first six months of this year have already seen plans submitted for 111 turbines with a further 83 covered by scoping requests.
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Unemployment benefits last for a maximum of 99 weeks at the moment, and that is due to fall to six months from next year.
Philippe Mellier, chief executive of De Beers, reportedly said the company will continue to reduce its output through the end of the year and allow its sightholders to hold onto their inventories for up to six months, far longer than normal.
According to Turkish Central Bank statistics, in the first six months of this year, the net error money entering the Turkish economy for which regulators cannot account has increased almost eightfold compared to 2002, the year the AKP came to power.
According to UN statistics, they were responsible for four-fifths of the 1, 500-odd civilian deaths caused by fighting in the first six months of this year.
Last week, a 57-year-old Latvian truck driver was jailed for six months for lying about the amount of rest he had taken after being stopped by North Wales Police officers on the A55 at Bangor.
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