True, Italian governments have proved adept over the years at finding ways to tap the country's substantial wealth to service its eye-popping levels of sovereign debt, but this has been largely achieved by introducing ever higher and more complex taxes that only encourage tax evasion while simultaneously sucking the life out of the economy.
Merseyside's chief fire officer has warned of "substantial consequences" if the service's budget is cut further.
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Its banks offered Internet accounts to foreigners, were renowned for their service, provided substantial privacy to clients and had very low taxes.
Its first substantial programme, a bus service in Clayton County, began in November 2001 and now serves 1, 400 riders every weekday, roughly twice as many as the planners expected.
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Berezovsky, the largest Avtovaz dealer, had the best "personal relationship" imaginable, since the Avtovaz chairman, its head of finance and its head of aftersale service each owned a substantial portion of Logovaz stock.
He said that some very difficult choices would have to be made if the executive decided not to provide a substantial level of protection for the health service.
"We are hopeful we can reach a positive conclusion soon and launch a new service that complements our already substantial operations in China, " James Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Hong-Kong based Star said.
The company has vertically integrated operations and owns substantial midstream, compression, drilling and oilfield service assets.
Yesterday, Netflix announced new pricing for its subscription DVD rental service, one that represents a substantial increase.
Dave Penman, general secretary of the FDA union which represents around 18, 000 civil servants, defended the civil service, saying it had succeeded in delivering substantial savings in line with the government's priorities at the same time as delivering its "radical" reform agenda.
"The free school programme involves substantial public funds and significant changes to the way the education service is controlled, managed and delivered, " the tribunal concluded.
Funeral and burial service companies have, also, the potential for substantial appreciation, especially as they ride on favorable demographics, the aging of baby-boomers, who unfortunately would be offered these services irrespective of the state of the economy.
With the substantial loss of manufacturing jobs comes the loss of a serious amount of service sector jobs.
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What refusing to raise the debt limit will mean is that after the debt service is paid, Congress will have to get serious and make substantial cuts to other federal spending to avoid having to borrow money.
If you are resident in the UK, and you have substantial liabilities and outgoings in sterling, a bit of inflation will help you service what you owe at the same time as eroding the real value of your assets (or in this case, the real value of your loans to Her Majesty's Government).
The bank said the bonus was for "substantial progress in making RBS safer, rebuilding performance in many businesses and improving customer service and support".
Among others, Jane Gravelle of the Congressional Research Service has found that a significant cut in U.S. rates would lose substantial tax revenue.
In June, the Internal Revenue Service tightened an exception that had allowed companies to move to countries in which they have substantial business activities.
As a model for future deals, TiVo has agreed to give up a substantial chunk of its subscription fees to its largest partner, DirecTV, in exchange for hyping the service.
Carlyle Capital that said while its parent company had participated "actively" in negotiations with lenders and was prepared to provide substantial additional capital if a successful refinancing deal could be reached, negotiations had deteriorated on Wednesday when a pricing service used by some lenders reported a drop in the value of the assets' collateral.
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