Small breaks and rough surfaces are eliminated by plaster of clay or lime, and then painted.
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While promotional activity has been on the rise this year, it's been mostly limited to offering consumers small breaks on financing deals, either with lower rates or longer terms.
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Regolith is a fine powder formed by a constant rain of small meteorites that breaks up the rocks at the surface.
And sad to say, John Kerry even voted against giving small businesses tax breaks so they could provide health care for their employees.
Does he not believe in tax breaks for small businesses, or efforts to help our veterans?
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So that's why Harry and I are working to provide tax breaks for small businesses to spur hiring.
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This is curious: consolidated taxes might actually increase revenues because big companies could no longer take advantage of small firms' tax breaks.
Even though the minimum wage has been at the same level for many years, he adds, the government has continued to provide tax breaks for small-business owners.
It includes a VAT cut, tax breaks for small firms and using a bank bonus tax to pay for new affordable homes and guaranteed jobs for young people.
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In particular, the White House expects a deal on the minimum wage, with Republicans going along with a raise in exchange for Democratic support for some small-business tax breaks.
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Instead of giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, we want to give tax breaks to small business owners who are creating jobs right here in America.
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In the same speech she announced 17 tax breaks for small businesses via the Recovery Act, the Small Business Jobs Act and other laws in the spring of 2011.
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Congress wants well-off college students--and their parents--to help pay for the small-business tax breaks it aims to hand out as part of a deal to raise the federal minimum wage.
Washington (CNN) -- The Senate voted Tuesday to begin debate on a bill to give tax breaks to small businesses that hire new workers or boost pay for existing workers.
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He made health care his top priority in the campaign, saying that he would work to reduce the price of prescription drugs and provide more health care coverage through government programs and tax breaks for small businesses.
Cuomo said other measures include tax breaks for small business, corporations and middle class families that will take effect not in the budget being negotiated now, but in the 2014-15 budget, which includes the election year for Cuomo and lawmakers.
Small businesses are eligible right now for huge tax breaks about a third of what small businesses pay for their employees to provide them health care, now they can deduct from their taxes.
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We should give tax breaks to American small businesses and manufacturers.
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In the legislation, the kiddie tax is considered to be an offset provision for tax breaks given to small businesses, but there is more to the story.
As reported on May 2 in a Forbes.com article, " Rich College Kids: Take A Tax Hike, " Congress wants children and college students who come from wealthier families to pay more taxes to offset tax breaks given to small businesses.
So we'll give tax breaks and loans to small business to help them hire new workers and raise wages and invest in new plants and equipment.
But when asked to name his top three priorities, he does not miss a beat: anti-corruption laws, a social safety net for people who are "slipping through the cracks", and incentives for growth - including tax breaks - to help small businesses.
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Small wonder that support for these laws breaks almost exactly along party lines.
Small talk before meetings start, coffee breaks, and running into people into the halls all provide a litany of unscripted, unorchestrated interactions that make it difficult for people to package themselves.
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One reason seems to be that these efforts have generally relied on a single silver bullet, such as tax breaks from the government or small-business incubators set up by venture capitalists.
Even if you have a full time nanny, or send your kids to daycare, being home during the work day means you can have lunch together, take snuggle breaks, and even nurse small children instead of pumping.
But that and a few other small but concrete steps like overlapping lunch breaks and moving coffee stations can improve workplace morale and productivity by as much as 25%, according to Ben Waber, a research scientist and CEO of Sociometric Solutions, a management consulting firm.
Attracted by tax breaks and subsidies, hundreds of small Chinese solar producers sprang up.
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