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The large sub-categories are Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and various forms of public assistance (food stamps, housing support, etc.).
FORBES: Federal Spending Up, Employment Down
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In addition to providing technical advice on the full range of education sub-sectors out of its Kabul Office, UNESCO implements large-scale literacy programmes for civilians and police officers in Afghanistan, with Japanese funding.
UNESCO: EDUCATION
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Prior to the subprime crisis, Goldman played a major role in persuading the large debt ratings agencies to upgrade a significant amount of sub-prime mortgages to prime, which were then packaged and sold them as prime.
FORBES: In Goldman Sachs We Do Not Trust
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But while many major international banks have seen large writedowns in the wake of rising defaults among the sub-prime mortgage market, the majority of China's US mortgage-backed securities were underwritten by US government agencies such as Fannie Mae.
BBC: RELATED BBC SITES
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In order to compete with the kingpin of that space, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its Elastic Compute Cloud, Google has bolstered its platform with new features, including shared-core instances for low-intensity chores, advanced routing, large persistent disks up to 10TB in volume size and sub-hour billing to keep costs down.
ENGADGET
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Check this out: 1, 000 fold magnification of sub-cellular details of a sample and the sample can be as large as 200 gigabytes.
FORBES: The Socialization of Microscopes
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Gabon enjoys a per capita income four times that of most sub-Saharan African nations, but because of high income inequality, a large proportion of the population remains poor.
FORBES: Gabon
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Meningitis A is rare in the UK. However, it has caused a large number of deaths in some parts of the world, particularly sub-Saharan Africa where it has reached epidemic proportions.
BBC: Meningitis A vaccine hope
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In the recent past, the only thing that kept private equity from gobbling up large public companies was a lack of available financing, especially of the riskier sub-investment-grade variety following the 2008 financial crisis.
FORBES: Year Of Failed Deals For Private Equity
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This retail sub-sector has rebounded in part due to strong balance sheet management and inventory controls by the large retailers.
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