Wednesday's meeting was also used to confirm the Yorkshire club's rugby operational budget for next season.

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Jacques Rogge said there was confusion "between the operational budget and the infrastructure budget" which would redevelop swathes of east London.

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And despite American donations, the army's operational budget is tight.

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The debt limit thus operates like the Social Securitytrust fund: it imposes an important operational restraint, and budget actions used to avoid it cannot pay for other programs.

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How could we have brought on so much capital to build the company and still have no budget to create stable operational systems?. .

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This comparison reveals the unique feature of Medicare Part A: It is the only one of these programs that allows budget savings to pay for other programs and has a trust fund with real operational teeth.

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