Working-age council tax benefit recipients will have to pay at least a quarter of their bill, Cornwall councillors have decided.
Average health spending for individuals receiving free medical care was 32 percent higher than for those who had to pay a quarter of the bill out of pocket.
Bookings were up substantially in the fourth quarter and we have a solidly positive book to bill so far in the first quarter.
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Book-to-bill in the quarter was 1.33, which the company noted was the highest in two years.
Given that disability benefits account for around a quarter of the total social-security bill, substantial savings would be possible from focusing disability benefits on genuinely disabled people.
Although he's on the dollar bill now and on the quarter, "Washington would probably object, " says Douglas Mudd, curator of the museum at the American Numismatic Association in Colorado Springs, Colo.
An obvious target is the government's own pay bill, which makes up a quarter of total spending.
Cameras were rolling as Wall Streeters responded to Bill Ford's second-quarter earnings announcement last July 20 before the then chairman handed the chief executive title to Alan Mulally.
Boeing reported a 13% increase in first-quarter earnings Wednesday, as a smaller tax bill helped the company offset softer revenues driven by a decrease in its commercial airplane business.
Looking ahead, CEO Bill McCracken foresees difficult growth in the quarter ahead as current sluggish sales trends continue.
The Welsh government believes the Human Transplantation (Wales) Bill will increase organs available for transplant by a quarter and it hopes the legislation will become law by the summer.
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With the bill facing 70% opposition in some polls, and after being presented with a petition that expressed the disapproval of a quarter of Iceland's population, Grimsson finally decided to veto the bill.
The proposal from former Republican Senator Alan Simpson and Democrat Erskine Bowles, President Bill Clinton's former chief of staff, suggests taking about a quarter of savings from changes to healthcare programmes and another quarter from new revenue from tax changes.
Well, if you look at that graph again right now, you will notice that Romer and Bernstein predicted that, in the first quarter of 2014, the unemployment rate would be 5.0% whether the stimulus bill was passed or not.
Bill: If the market goes straight up, as it did in the first quarter, the protective positions will cause the portfolio to underperform.
Nearby, Quay County rancher Bill Humphries said the pigs were responsible for leaving "bomb craters everywhere" along a quarter-mile stretch of road on his family ranch.
India consumes a quarter of the global gold demand of 4, 000 tonnes, and spends about 12% of its import bill on the metal.
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