For example, if a professional firm has a large number of partners who potentially want to sell out at death, disability, divorce, or retirement, the firm can significantly improve cash flow management by pre-funding these buyouts through purchases of life insurance on the owners.
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She points to one of her successors in the social history department who, thanks to pre-crash funding, has been able to work with young people and those with mental health problems.
Governments may be good at certain things that advance technology, such as the peer-reviewed funding of basic research and pre-commercial development (including demonstrations of proof-of-concept), but they are rarely leaders in technological innovation.
But they were every bit as good as the private sector in terms of choice and quality - if not far better, particularly after the 1944 Education Act and the founding of the NHS, which offered services and opportunities transformed from the pre-war years within a post-war economy and society governed by rationing, funding constraints, and pervasive low skills and aspirations.
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The UUP's Basil McCrea highlighted the research suggesting the educational and social benefits of pre-school education, and asked the minister to increase funding to account for 98% of potential demand instead of the current 90%.
Only 10% of day nurseries and pre-school managers who responded to the survey said they received adequate funding to cover the cost of these free places - a sharp drop from the 38% who, in a similar survey in May this year, said the cost was fully covered.
As for tuition fees she said the government would not pre-empt the findings of the independent review it had commissioned into higher education funding and student finance.
Originally intended to ship to backers in Autumn 2012, the watch will now go first to those who contributed to its funding, before then being shipped to those who have placed pre-orders.
The British Heart Foundation is funding a study, which aims to identify the genes responsible for pre-eclampsia.
In 2001, President George W. Bush banned all federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research, except on a handful of "pre-existing" stem cell lines.
Hill View Pre-School in Banbury, Oxfordshire, is to shut on 28 March after the county council axed funding.
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