Large-cap core funds have advanced 13.16% year-to-date, while the small-cap core funds have posted a slightly higher average gain of 13.9%.

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For a transaction to constitute a bona fide loan, there must be an unconditional promise to repay at the time the funds are advanced.

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Some examples of Recovery Act programs that leverage other investment funds are tax credits for advanced energy manufacturing, loan guarantees for small businesses, and interest subsidies for state and local borrowing to finance essential infrastructure projects.

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Last week, Wasif Latif, a fund manager at USAA mutual funds, told Forbes that his bet is for the advanced economies to stop advancing.

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White first met with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on April 30 when he was informed that the Army had 30 days to develop a plan to cancel the Crusader and find other more advanced technologies on which to spend the Crusader funds.

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Dan Mathisson, Credit Suisse managing director and head of advanced execution services, believes these massive orders were from quant hedge funds whose algorithms suddenly decided stocks were cheap and sent out huge buy orders, all over 1 million shares each.

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The University of Worcester said it had been "very challenging trying to find funds" for its new arena, but there was "a clear demand for advanced sports facilities".

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The agency which would be hardest hit would be the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which funds both the riskiest and most transformative, early-stage energy innovation projects, and would lose a staggering 75% of its budget under H.

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