The success of high budget animation movies is highly uncertain, and we believe that a large portion of film revenues (box office, DVDs and licensing) for Viacom comes from non-animated movies.
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Since we're facing high budget deficits at the federal level and in many states, we can't afford to give out tax breaks that don't encourage the new business formation that will help build a sustainable economic recovery.
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The worrying parallel is not that Argentina is a country with a strong Italian heritage, or that it was once rich but has become relatively poorer, but rather that it adopted an extreme variant of the old Italian model: high inflation, high public spending, high budget deficits and frequent devaluations.
He cited as supportive high government budget deficits around the world, continuing eurozone debt issues, still-high U.S. unemployment likely to keep interest rates low for some time yet, plus prospects for an eventual shift in sentiment toward higher inflation expectations.
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That kind of marketing agility, of course, matters to high-stakes, high-budget presidential campaigns.
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Instead of graphics power and high-budget games, game interface and mechanics have become some of the more important factors to consumers now.
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Though Hollywood agents are loath to admit it, the days of casting two high-budget stars to prop up a film are increasingly rare.
One thing is clear, between the numbers that Facebook is throwing around, the announcement from Zynga, and the development of new, high-budget social studios.
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These high-end, high-budget, meticulously-developed entertainment products take gamers away to different realities, showing a richness and sense of adventure and excitement lacking in even some large budget films.
The remainder of 2002 is shaping up to be a memorable year at the movies, as the next round of high-budget summer blockbusters get ready for their debut, leaving media companies and their investors hopeful for big hits.
Even if there were already trained teachers who could teach entry level computer science in high schools, budget and union constraints would make it very difficult to hire them.
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In exchange for opening its stage to Medina High School, which did away with its drama program in budget cuts, Lyndonville High sent students to prop up Medina's football and soccer teams and play in its championship marching band.
Low growth could then make debt levels harder to reduce and keep budget deficits high.
The Conservative-run council said the decision had been made due to constraints on the school budget and high running and maintenance costs.
Captain G R Gopinath, chairman of Air Deccan, says Air Deccan aims at bridging the gap between high-end and budget air travellers.
He said he was "thrilled" that Bloomberg chose Providence, a city that has struggled in recent years with high unemployment and yawning budget deficits.
Yet in Argentina, inflation, high public spending and budget deficits persisted.
Housed in a grim, unassuming building near the Los Angeles airport, it had lost its high school due to budget cuts, and the dropout rate had soared to nearly 60 percent.
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Meanwhile, Denmark and Italy say their national contributions to the budget are too high.
It was a budget cloaked in high-flown phrases and principles, but which was not a terribly principled affair.
The party had high hopes that its protectionist budget announced on June 1st would help revive the economy.
The CDU wants to keep taxes high to help reduce the budget deficit.
Back East, states such as New York and Florida, which have high unemployment rates and huge budget shortfalls, also are looking to cut programs.
Research by Christiane Nickel and Isabel Vansteenkiste of the European Central Bank found that rising budget deficits in high-debt countries are associated with higher private savings.
The budget deficit is high (8.9% of GDP in 2011), but only a week before the market panic Mariano Rajoy, the prime minister, announced more tough austerity measures.
Also, whilst it may be easy to calculate the direct costs allocated to the education budget, the high attainment level at Dunshalt pays dividends back in areas that will never appear as a gain in Dunshalt's "cost per child" figures.
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If running an internet ad campaign becomes just a matter of asking for 50 million slots and hoping for the best then where is all the budget for the high paid and interesting jobs in doing the tracking of the consumers?
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Indeed, Linda Lim, a professor of Southeast Asian studies at the University of Michigan Business School, notes that the country's puny savings rate, chronic budget deficits and high ratio of nonworking dependents to workers make it look more like a Latin American than an Asian nation.
One finds high Cs of optimism in every budget message (well, maybe not the Carter budgets).
Otherwise, refinancing government debt at high interest rates adds to the budget deficit and outstanding national debt.
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