The swing from public expense to public income could be huge over the long run.
But, like the planned East Midlands HQ, it was never used and was mothballed at great public expense.
Since the 1970s, cabinet ministers have usually been allowed to appoint a personal political adviser at public expense.
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And companies reap the benefits of the technology developed at the public expense.
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Commissioned at public expense during a famine, it inspired hostile notes, the famous, anonymous pasquinades that were hung near the piazza's south end.
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Swaziland's King Mswati III, accused by critics of enjoying a lavish lifestyle at public expense while his people suffer great poverty, was also there.
Others are treated in hospital emergency rooms, often at public expense.
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This creates an inherent conflict of interest, as a politician can be negotiating regarding the pay and benefits for his own political supporters at public expense.
It seems that Mr Spitzer, even at this dinner, was continuing his trial by denunciation, avoiding the trouble and public expense of actually taking anybody to court.
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They said it was to explain the financial, economic and environmental implications of HS2 but their critics saw it as more akin to a campaigning event staged at public expense.
For just about any energy producing state, this would be a valid goal, but for a country that relies on oil and gas for just about every public expense, this was about survival.
But when receipts were leaked showing how MPs had used the allowance, some were accused of "flipping" their second homes, refurbishing one at public expense before switching claims to another, and of making huge profits on sales.
"It is not just the clawing greed of painstaking claims for such minor items as tampons, barbecue sets and bathrobes, but also the egregious way some have transferred allowances from one second property to another - enabling them to refurbish homes at public expense, then sell them for profit, " Lord Carey added.
"We heard evidence of excessive profits at the public's expense, of a government paying out too much money... this is unacceptable, " Mr Bailey added.
But to the extent that 1990s economic theory takes us back to 1960s antitrust policy, it will do little more than protect inefficient firms and enrich lawyers and consultants at the public's expense.
Labour's Pauline McNeill welcomed the plans, but said they should not come at the expense of public safety.
No doubt this puts the funds in the Breast Cancer Fund, but it is at the expense of public health and good science.
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They are likely to give priority to the short-term claims of the public finances at the expense of impoverishing Argentines and their children in the future.
As quality metrics are devised and set I will remind policymakers that people with disabilities needing long term care represent the single greatest and growing expense for public insurance.
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But there is no waiver that protects against the possibility of a lawsuit and its various forms of prayed relief or the public relations nightmares and expense of related litigation.
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Unfortunately, the proposed Silver Lake transaction falls significantly short of that, and instead appears to be an effort to acquire Dell at a substantial discount to intrinsic value at the expense of public shareholders.
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RWM's members have left in the past year, alleging that the committee was focusing on public relations at the expense of hard science and wasting time on outlandish options such as firing waste into space.
To make this thing public after all of that expense and effort, I would be embarrassed as a prosecutor to bring it.
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GlaxoSmithKline has in the past been at the center of scandals created in part by data on drugs that critics said was not made public in a timely manner, at the expense of patients who may have suffered dangerous side effects.
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The group engaged in a very public fight to save the spotted owl at the expense of timber jobs.
That same spare-no-expense mentality drove the design of the public spaces.
Their chief grievance was the monopoly of trade and public office held by the Spanish-born, at the expense of locally born criollos.
He had been pouring out the operas, assembling stellar casts of singers from all over Europe and laying on sumptuous productions, but as time went by the expense of mounting full-blown operas and the public's waning appetite for the Italian variety pitched him into financial crisis.
"Manmohan Singh is guilty of pursuing the noble quest for reconciliation at the expense of another maxim of statecraft: those who spurn the public authority's hand of reconciliation must be made to learn the cost of confrontation, " concludes Mr Khare.
The purpose of the establishment clause, they argue, is to ensure that state-sponsored gatherings (such as sporting events at public schools) do not endorse the viewpoint of one religious group at the expense of another.
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