He also predicted that as a percentage of GDP, primary current expenditure (excluding interest payments and capital spending), which in 2008 reached its highest level since the second world war, would rise by a further three percentage points in 2009.
Mr Bloomberg's idea was fought hardest by the barons who run the current primary system, particularly the trade unions.
As long as a company has 20 or more employees, the group health coverage it provides is indeed the primary coverage for current workers age 65 and older.
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The old days of the smoke-filled rooms, says an aide, produced better candidates than the current primary process that has seen Lamar Alexander campaign nonstop for six years.
Looking forward, even if elementary schools improve near the redeveloped mixed-income communities, Pattillo (2007) holds that original poor public housing residents will also unlikely be the ultimate long-term primary beneficiaries of current educational reform initiatives in these newly constructed neighborhoods.
The current American primary schedule is not the work of the Founding Fathers.
The primary instigator of the current economic turbulence was malinvestment into residential real estate exacerbated by a corrupted monetary policy.
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Mikhail Gorbachev's proposed All-Union Treaty -- which is supposed to be the primary focus of the current session of the Congress of People's Deputies -- ostensibly redefines the relationship between the central government in Moscow and the increasingly restive Soviet republics.
Conservative peer Lord Blackwell, who was a political adviser to former Prime Minister John Major, said that "the primary reason for our current deficit" was a growth in public spending from 40% of GDP to closer to 50% over the last decade.
In free societies, the media's primary responsibilities are to report current events to the public, place those events into an historical context to enable the public to understand how and why they occurred and to present the public with the options for going forward.
And Labour dismissed plans to reduce primary class sizes, saying that current trends already meant that an average of 25 would be achieved in the next few years.
The Fund is expected to ask the new government to raise its current target, of a primary surplus of 3.75% of GDP, to perhaps 4.5%.
Eduardo Frei, Chile's current president, also faced a primary before his election in 1993.
Education and literacy targets have been a primary focus of national strategic planning, and the current target is to reach 95.8 per cent adult literacy by 2014, which equates to an extra 8.5 million literate people compared to the 2008 adult literacy rate.
In the current study, the researchers surveyed 422 primary-care doctors practicing across the United States about how often they experienced eight different types of difficult encounters, from having a patient with unrealistic expectations for care to one who was disrespectful or verbally abusive.
Romney's campaign and other top Republicans say the gender gap in current polling will disappear once the divisive GOP primary battle ends.
If needed, it said extra staff would be taken on and current staff would be monitored to ensure their primary duties are not compromised.
One of the most brutal things about the current global depression was the expansion of the primary gig, swallowing the time to perform your secondary and drying up that supplementary income.
"The goal here is to signify to people that they are getting real and reliable information, " said Democratic consultant David Axelrod, who is working against Hillsman's current Democratic client in Minnesota's Senate primary.
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To identify instances where current Medicare should have been the secondary, rather than primary, payer for Federal civilian employees with health insurance benefits.
And, well, we can't express our disappointment enough here -- not only does a mode dial simplify the process of selecting your primary shooting preference, it also serves to provide confirmation of your current pick, letting you know that you're in manual before you fire off a half dozen now-useless frames.
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For comparison, the CBO estimates the primary deficit will be running at 7% of GDP by then if current policies are maintained.
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In the current year, there have been some 16, 113 new primary entrants compared with a Department for Education and Skills target of 15, 800.
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"Countries in sub-Saharan Africa that currently increase enrolment in primary education will need to recruit the equivalent of 63% of their current teaching workforce before 2015, " says Marc Bernal, UIS regional advisor in Africa.
Specifically, the President would make permanent the expanded American Opportunity and Earned Income credits and extend through 2016 the current exclusion from taxable income for cancellation of indebtedness recognized on a primary residence.
While current job market realities are an essential consideration, they are not the primary driver.
However, "the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of primary care interventions to prevent child maltreatment, " the task force said Monday.
In April 2005, the council agreed in principle to change from the current system of first, middle and high schools to a system of primary and secondary schools.
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Perhaps the company's " problems" in Europe and the lackluster reception towards the current iteration of Zune -- hence the focus on Zune's primary innovation, WiFi -- have calmed Gates, or maybe the iPod franchise has grown so huge that even its main competitors can't conceive of aiming for first place.
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The country's huge demand for gold is one of the primary reasons for its large import bill, which has led to a widening of the current account deficit.
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