To lose weight, governments have to do two things: learn how to do more with less, which means modernising the state, and cut back on what they offer, which among other things means tackling the social transfers.
The last thing you want to do is to lose them all at the same time.
In addition, wealthier individuals lose the ability to do estate-tax avoidance planning.
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Banks that do not offer the desired services will lose market share to those that do in this Year of the Consumer.
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Most people who say they want to get a new job, or meet someone or lose weight really do want to find new employment, find that significant other or be thinner.
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In our case the euro 17 have a lot more to lose than we do, as they run a large surplus with us.
It is important to grasp that incumbents do not stand to lose 27% of their revenues: rather, they will now have to defend this portion against competitors.
What Apple, Microsoft and Cisco need in order to bring that cash back into the country in an economic fashion is simply to do this: lose money, and in particular, enough money to offset the additional tax that would be required to bring the cash back into the country.
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The team management might just have reasoned that if they were going to shake thing up, now wasn't a bad time to do it, with little to lose after their thrashings in the first two games of the series.
When you talk to farmers, these are technologies they do not want to lose.
Firms have historically been reluctant to shed managers, partly because they do not want to lose anyone talented enough to have been promoted to a senior job, and partly because the people making the cuts often know their victims.
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"I don't believe the American people believe that it's shameful for us to lose a fight, but I do believe they think it's shameful for us not to fight, " said Watts.
The last thing I want to do is lose all my money.
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It's a concern that this is not the kind of a question you can leave to Congress ... even the Virginia senators ... are going to lose votes if they do not re-enact.
But the move to close the Tramway Hotel at Pakefield has angered some locals who do not want to lose the pub on London Road in Lowestoft.
Swansea have already lost Andy Robinson to Leeds since winning the League One title and the Liberty Stadium side do not want to lose another influential midfielder on the cheap.
Last year, the government abruptly changed its lending rules for auto loans and private banks had to comply or lose business to the big state banks, mainly Banco do Brasil and Caixa Economica Federal.
"We don't want that court battle to take us in a different direction and lose sight of what he's trying to do, " he said.
Moreover, if social spending is intended as insurance against the supposed risks of freer trade, it is hard to see why in many countries such a big slice of it goes to pensioners, who gain from lower import prices but do not have jobs to lose.
They worry that, having won the war, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, is now going to lose the peace by stubbornly refusing to send enough troops to do what is needed in Iraq.
You say that, if you're unemployed, you have nothing to lose, that you need to take what you love to do and try to figure out how to make money doing just that.
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The trigger that caused me to begin eating a plant-rich diet and lose another six to seven pounds had more to do with workout recovery than weight.
"We want to make sure that individuals do not lose their group health coverage because they lack information about the steps to take to protect those rights, " said Ann L. Combs , assistant secretary of labor for the Employee Benefits Security Administration, when the rules were released.
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