That may result in some one-off windfalls, but not enough to plug the revenue gap.
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But HMV will need more than seasonal windfalls to secure a long term future.
Cash-strapped producers are more likely to spend their windfalls on imports from rich countries.
Furthermore it also taxes wealth built up through windfalls rather than thrift and effort.
Chavez's vision of 21st century socialism emphasizes the use of state oil windfalls to fund social programs.
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Holders of the patents would reap windfalls and this would undermine a tax system based on voluntary compliance.
In part, this is due to stronger growth and windfalls for governments from the sale of third-generation mobile-telephone licences.
Its growth has also created extraordinary windfalls for some, and aroused more than a whiff of jealousy among others.
But U.S. automotive shares have a history of producing enormous windfalls for investors.
Beginning in the 1970s, oil windfalls were put into international banks, where they fostered activity nearly every place else.
In Europe there will no doubt be heavy political pressures to use the mobile-phone windfalls to finance extra spending.
They will have to wait for a full five years of membership before they can benefit from any windfalls.
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The impact on the output of oil-importing countries also depends on whether oil producers save or spend their windfalls.
DC, reckons that two-thirds of the windfalls of the 1990s, when actual revenues exceeded forecast ones, went on new spending.
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So far, it seems that these countries, especially Saudi Arabia, are using their windfalls to reduce their debts and balance their budgets.
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But fear abounds that they will become the next target of self-righteous politicians, especially if they are seen to be reaping windfalls.
Holders of the patents would reap windfalls and besides, they assert, allowing tax patents would undermine a tax system based on voluntary compliance.
Even though this year visitors seem to be spending less per head, she suspects that they spent unusually freely in 1997, thanks to building-society windfalls.
"I would like to see a much tougher approach to the windfalls on property and land values enjoyed by the super rich, " he told delegates.
Sure some people would lose government windfalls and those who were able would have to pay for more themselves, slowly and carefully phased in over time.
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QinetiQ was created out of the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and floated on the stock market in February 2006, netting huge windfalls for its directors.
Such windfalls are funding Ranbaxy's big gamble: basic drug research.
Small towns struggling for survival are reaping big tax windfalls.
There are three main strategies to save for an emergency fund that can help you achieve your goal: save consistently, save windfalls, and keep your savings out of reach.
While the dizzying holiday shopping season brings retailers their biggest windfalls of the year, it's also the time that the industry's biggest scourges, fraud and theft, kick into high gear.
Don't expect sudden cash windfalls (from high commodity prices, for instance) to last, plan your spending cuts strategically, cut back on low priorities, but do not slash across the board.
The cash windfalls from the conversion of mutual societies, mainly building societies (thrifts), into limited companies, which gave consumer spending a fillip in 1997, will not be repeated in 1998.
Also realizing Tesla IPO windfalls are the elite of Silicon Valley venture capital: the Westly Group (whose principal, Steve Westly, is an Obama campaign bundler), Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.
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