Oddly, though, the main beneficiaries of Britain's tax hand-outs seem to be big American studios.
His wife Janet confirmed that food hand-outs were being arranged in areas popular with British expats.
Organisers say the profit releases them from depending on hand-outs and provides an alternative to begging.
Public-sector jobs, state hand-outs and pensions are the main sources of income for most households.
In contrast, the left is divided which makes for interesting debates, but not such fat state hand-outs.
One of King Abdullah's responses to the Arab Spring has been massive hand-outs to keep his people sweet.
Why institutionalize government hand-outs for those unworthy of that taxpayer or citizen largess?
He has implored the country that invented the 35-hour week to work more and expect fewer hand-outs from the state.
But in the topsy-turvy world of regional aid and Brussels hand-outs, improved status means that things are officially getting worse.
Those who remain, often the old and the very young, are easier to intimidate or bribe with hand-outs of maize flour.
All of my personal belongings, including many large binders of information on best hospice practices, hand-outs for patients, etc. were also stolen.
The law creating Aid to Families with Dependent Children nowhere stated that all families defined as poor should be entitled to hand-outs.
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This has been backed by a whole raft of government hand-outs over the past year, ranging from bonuses for civil servants to vouchers for schoolbooks.
Filled with new entitlements and symbolic hand-outs, the true impact of this extraordinarily damaging law has only just surfaced in advance of its most destructive effects to come.
Bingo, tax hand-outs in Washington are getting Americans fired too.
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These include moving to beef up foreign investment, improving public welfare with cash hand-outs for civil servants and the poor, as well as pushing his 1Malaysia programme prioritising national unity.
With critics of the EU clamouring to end farm hand-outs, the Commission says farmers should earn a third of their direct payments by farming in a way that benefits the environment.
The idea of charges for university education (euphemistically known as top-up fees) strikes fear into the hearts of parents neither poor enough to benefit from state hand-outs nor rich enough not to feel the pinch of high tuition fees.
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Falbrav's electrifying turn of speed helped him notch up five Group One wins although his fifth - and arguably most impressive - win in the Hong Kong Cup came too late for him to receive due recognition at the annual awards hand-outs.
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The crowd began lining up at the Store on the corner of Henan Middle Road and East Nanjing Road at 10pm on Thursday, and were rewarded for their patience and bitterness-munching skills with staff hand-outs of high-fives, full-on reciprocal man-on-man hugs with hoisting involved, and free gray t-shirts.
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The biggest share of government benefits, meanwhile, goes to the elderly, in the form of Medicare and Social Security. (If you count tax breaks for mortgages and health insurance as government hand-outs, the rich are big spongers.) Only 13% of households receive food stamps, and only 5% benefit from public housing.
Although infrastructure expenses will be paid directly by the federal government (rebuilding or strengthening levees, for instance, is the job of the Army Corps of Engineers), the White House is already giving hints that it wants the post-Katrina assistance to showcase its preferred kind of government: more focus on tax incentives and vouchers than big federal hand-outs.
The benefits dished out in the early months, such as income-tax cuts and bigger pay-outs for children and sickness, were soon forgotten, leaving the impression that the government was harshly intent only on clobbering the little man by holding back pension and welfare increases to stay in line with inflation, while giving hand-outs to business via corporate tax cuts.
Bail-outs, on the other hand, corral and punish innocent bystanders who are un-involved in insolvent banks.
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Designers Enrico Bonetti and Dominic Kozerski were on hand at Drive-In Studios to explain the ins and outs of their one-off design, while I gently rocked with a video on an iPad.
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