His comments provoked a storm of criticism from Labour and Lib Dem MPs, who accused the chancellor of trying to make political capital out of an appalling crime.
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While it sounds like one of those online innovations that may make capital available to a larger number of people, crowd funding could make the boiler room scams of the 1980s look like mere parking violations.
Both Serbian and Albanian political parties have tried to make political capital out of the week's events.
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Politicians are also being criticised by speakers, who are urging them not to try to make political capital out of the deaths.
Others just want to make political capital out of any situation.
Roosevelt's expedition helped make Kenya the capital of the safari business.
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By taking on additional leverage in an LBO, a PE fund could unleash value and make the capital structure of the company they take private more efficient.
Meanwhile, both Israel and the Palestinian factions have signalled that they hope to make political capital out of the murder trial of Marwan Barghouti, a senior Palestinian leader.
Observers say Mr Jospin has made no attempt to make political capital out of the RPR's party funding embarrassments, because investigators believe his Socialist Party also acquired funds illicitly.
It is also trying to make political capital out of the fact that Mr Howard will not be in Australia when the tax begins but leading a party of former Australian prime ministers and officials to Britain to mark the centenary of the act of Parliament on July 9th 1900 that set up Australia's federation.
Sam Stathis of Stathis Enterprises and Theometrics wanted to make NYC the technology capital of the world.
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He needs to attract partners and fresh capital to make his ventures, most of them capital intensive start-ups, bring in expected revenues and reach production targets.
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In 1997-1998, Vietnam turned inward and gave priority to the mobilization of domestic capital to make up for the loss of East Asian trade and investment.
"The vast majority of ETFs never make a capital-gains payout and the vast majority of mutual funds do, " says Dave Nadig, director of research at IndexUniverse LLC.
The Palestinians hope to make East Jerusalem the capital of a future Palestinian state.
But while Britain may make better use of capital, it does not invest as much of it.
Public companies are keen to make better use of capital in Europe too.
Ongoing high costs are pushing insurance carriers to make better use of capital, but, to do that, they typically want more confidence about their exposure to risk.
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So on the Buffett rule, it would pretty substantially affect venture capitalists who make any kind of capital gains, any kind of really successful capital gains on investments in new businesses.
With such a narrow victory, Maduro has little political capital to make some of the difficult choices some of those problems require, said Risa Grais-Targow, Latin America analyst for the Eurasia Group.
The celebrity chef's series, Ministry Of Food, aims to make the town "the culinary capital of the UK" by teaching people how to learn to cook.
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They make much of the finding that capital is draining from America to the third world, and of the fact that recently America has run a deficit in its balance of payments.
Entrepreneurs that shun this time-tested method of raising capital, because their investors might make a lot of money, do so at the peril of not achieving their stated goals, which might just include serving the very community Professor Yunus is nobly focused on: fully one half of the world's population.
They are also aiming to make Totnes the nut tree capital of Britain.
And British prime minister Gordon Brown, for example, has declared he intends to make London the Islamic finance capital of the world.
Although that is partly to strengthen them against foreign competitors, efforts to make better use of local capital are also in train.
If both parties are involved in doing difficult but necessary things, neither side can make political capital at the expense of the other and trade-offs can be made.
His refusal to do anything in practice to scare off money from abroad, despite occasional talk about foreigners' in Britain not paying enough tax, has helped make London arguably the financial capital of the world.
In the past few years, much of what remained to make China's capital an extraordinary city has been systematically destroyed in favour of characterless boulevards and brutalist, bathroom-tile-clad architecture, all choked by a cloud of traffic pollution.
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