The tourist nation -- whose white sandy beaches lure well-heeled Westerners -- wants to set aside part of its annual billion-dollar revenue into buying a new homeland, he said at the time.
And if we set aside the pay-as-you-go nature of Medicare and pretend it really is an insurance program, your payroll tax contributions will end up covering only about one third of your personal tax-financed spending over your lifetime.
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To cover out-of-pocket medical costs, some people set aside pretax dollars in flexible-spending accounts through work.
It also said impairment charges - money set aside to cover bad loans - were down by 40% compared with a year ago.
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They will also have to provide more capital against such assets as government debt, hitherto regarded as risk-free, and increase the amount set aside for foreign-exchange dealings.
Capital One said second-quarter profit fell 90 percent as an acquisition forced it to set aside loan-loss reserves.
Trial judge Leonie Brinkema is going to great lengths to find a group of Americans - 12 jurors and six alternates - who can set aside what they know, or think they know, about the case.
Unless a law is passed, those fines -- which will likely amount to billions of dollars -- could instead be set aside for some future oil spill.
This is about on par with the 27% to 30% of income at rival Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ), if you set aside Citi's costs from the WorldCom settlement.
His rival, Vice President Al Gore, also focused on education, pledging to expand a tax-free, inflation-indexed savings plans enabling parents to set aside money for their childrens' college education.
In a consumer-directed-health plan, employees can set aside their own money in an account though often times the employer provides a match or a certain amount for the worker to use toward their deductibles and co-payments.
This banker expects just a handful of savings banks - of which the biggest and most important is Bankia - to be instructed to set aside 25bn to 30bn euros to cover the additional costs of loans going bad.
And over the years, over 100 sites have been set aside as national monuments -- everything from the Statue of Liberty to the Grand Canyon.
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Perhaps as a condition of direct-to-consumer advertising, drug companies should have to set aside some funds to pay for advertisements that would alert consumers when something goes wrong.
The hard part for Obama--and for marketers going forward--is to find ways to challenge Americans to set aside their cynicism.
FSAs enable you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for qualified health care costs.
And the banks can tap funds set aside for loan-loss reserves and call them profits.
Others set aside entry-level hiring until the spring for a summer or fall start.
Less compelling is his hint that a day could be set aside for flag-waving.
This week, Mr Romero acknowledged that a budget had been set aside for anti-narcotics intelligence.
But as nice as it sounds, most people simply won't set aside additional savings for long-term-care needs.
Thirty two areas within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary were set aside as no-take zones in 1997.
You did take that money set aside for your next preamp-processor upgrade out of the stock market didn't you?
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Police have set aside a three-figure sum to fund the advertising, which will cost the force 30p per click.
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The new Flexible Spending Account Tax limits the amount of money that workers can set aside tax-free for medical costs.
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High-deductible plans are usually paired with health savings accounts (HSAs), which allow consumers to set aside money tax-free for health expenses.
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But most nations set aside political one-upmanship to get on with the grim task of pulling people out of the rubble.
In 1962, as Jamaica approached Independence, Appleton set aside several hand-selected barrels of Estate rum specifically in anticipation of this momentous occasion.
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