LeVert's main contributions this season have been at the defensive end, and Albrecht's job is usually to take some of the ball-handling pressure off Burke.

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The senator proposes that the Social Security system be counted separately from the main budget, since workers' current contributions are not meant to be used on regular spending programmes, but are supposed to fund future pensions.

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The Netherlands and Spain are cutting their contributions to the Global Fund, one of the two main distributors of the life-saving drugs (the other is Mr Bush's brainchild, PEPFAR), and Italy has stopped paying altogether.

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Moreover, drawing on some of the main writers involved, the main positions in the political and theoretical debate about multiculturalism are discussed to assess their contributions to developing a management principle for dealing with these risks.

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Main reasons: labour-market rigidity and high costs, not least due to social-security contributions, which have now risen to 42% of wages and salaries.

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While he does not strictly need to get the Bundesrat's approval for the main elements of the pension plans, the chancellor does need its consent for his proposed tax incentives to encourage contributions to supplementary private pensions.

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