It still seems likely that a long-term commitment to some form of budget-sharing via euro-zone bonds will be needed to convince investors that governments are serious.
In Minnesota, a truce has been called, in the form of another budget fudge that will kick the can along to the next election.
Under a pilot scheme taking place in some parts of the country, a single assessment results in a cash allocation that is given to the user or their family directly - in the form of a personalised budget.
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His centre-right government must now either find alternative savings and submit them to parliament in the form of a supplementary budget - at a time when its authority to implement further austerity is weakened by the court's decision - or seek to renegotiate the terms of the bailout accord with the troika, the three institutions overseeing its implementation, says the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon.
Roughly 30% of the budget is in the form of government grants, and the remaining 10% is met by their own income on the corpus built up over time.
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PNG's vast mineral reserves and furnishes a substantial part of the country's budget in the form of aid.
Yet three-quarters of the EU's budget comes in the form of direct contributions from governments, based on national income.
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Yet Mr Bush is busy trying to persuade Congress to pass the huge tax cuts that form the centrepiece of his 2004 budget and his economic stimulus package.
Finally, Washington should stop treating the defense budget as a form of foreign aid.
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Second, spending cuts should be guaranteed by budget controls with teeth in the form of an agreement that would implement automatic, across-the-board cuts if Congress fails to enact a responsible budget.
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But Conservative finance spokesman Paul Davies said the budget "in its current form is not fit for purpose" because of a pressure on the health budget.
With the Conservatives' General Election victory in 1992, people came to accept the inevitability of some form of constitutional reform which would prevent Tory domination of Scottish politics and the Scottish Office budget on the basis of electoral victory in England.
John Makumbe, a political analyst, predicts quite a number of handouts in the form of tax cuts will be announced in the budget.
One popular objection says that the IRS violates the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 by failing to put a required Office of Management and Budget control number on form instructions.
She also argues that it is an extremely expensive form of punishment at a time when the state faces enormous budget deficits.
The requirement that banks must hold up to about a quarter of their deposits in government bonds was no longer denounced as a racket to help fund the budget deficit but instead hailed as an enlightened form of liquidity management.
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