When Congress engages in deficit spending the Treasury auctions off T-Bills to pay for it.
General rules when it comes to breaking bad news: Don't put it off, don't pass it off to someone else and don't let your emotions get the better of you.
And it made sure that teachers weren't being laid off and police officers weren't being laid off in states that were hemorrhaging because of lost tax revenue.
And by the time Where the Streets Have No Name boomed out of the speakers it was definitely a case of forget about drinking the lager - let's throw it in the air, rip off our T-shirts and jump as high as we can.
If it doesn't take off, it doesn't matter, because they didn't expect to make any money.
"When we ran it off, it didn't run off at anything like book value, " Munger says.
"We can't be off our game and we can't carry people because we're not good enough, " he told BBC Tees.
Dr. EDWARD RICE (Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Foster School of Business, University of Washington): I can take a very large risk and basically be risking the Treasury's money where, if it pays off, I win, and if it doesn't pay off, the Treasury loses.
But the about five million recipients who have yet to make the switch won't see their checks cut off if they don't meet the deadline, says Walt Henderson, a spokesman for the Treasury Department.
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The big companies laying people off aren't going to provide these people with jobs.
And iPod users aren't off the hook either: when playing tracks protected by Apple's FairPlay DRM, CNET found that iPod battery life declined by 8%.
Off Message, t The memoir of another left-wing Labour MP, Bob Marshall-Andrews, recalls Mr Flynn voting the wrong way, supporting the government rather than joining the rebels.
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If plastics recycling isn't taking off, that's in part because scrap plastic isn't worth much--and it isn't worth much because handling it consumes gobs of labor, energy and other precious resources.
If consumer spending holds up and the sentiment indexes aren't off much at all, there is now a broad spectrum of very reasonably priced stocks after declines ranging from 30% to 50%.
And on the charity front certainly, I mean, there's some groups doing a fabulous work and all just won't off who here Doctors Without Borders is here, CARE is with us, is here, the Pan-African development fund is here, World Vision is operating here and they are obviously very important link in terms of providing assistant to the people that here on the ground.
Some company assets will be hived off but there won't be a wholesale sell-off.
"After the game I didn't want to take my jersey off, I didn't want to leave it, " said the 32-year-old.
But is there anything to persuade the great mass of "don't knows", turned-off and "don't cares" to finally make up their minds?
" When somebody replied that government officials shouldn't demand off-the-record meetings, Woodhouse answered: "By that logic, journos shouldn't accept anonymous leaks.
The actor-turned playwright sat through the preview alone in a corner of an off-Broadway theater and now seems to be in some gastrointestinal pain, which he admits isn't far off.
"Some oil wells will pay off and some won't, but the ones that do pay off will pay off big time, " says Peter Ticconi Jr.
The technology is already beginning to pay off, and despite its recent invention, the word on the street is that a Nobel Prize isn't far off.
According to its About screen, this "DVT-1" (a late milestone) device packs 128GB of memory -- twice as much as the largest available capacity option right now (remember that 64GB iPhone 4 prototype in Hong Kong?) -- as well as a model number "MC550LL" which isn't far off from those of the fourth-gen iPod touches ("MC54xLL"), though this similarity doesn't help prove its authenticity nor indicate whether it'll make it to the market.
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