Past experience with zero-based budgeting, both in Britain and in America, has been disappointing.
The top Tea Party priority right now should be to replace baseline budgeting with this zero-based or family budgeting.
In the early 1970s, then-Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter used zero-based budgeting as a way to focus on justifying every dollar that was being spent in the state government.
Effective October 1, 2002, for intragovernmental investments with the Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), BPD and trading partner agencies will use the interest method for amortization on market-based notes, bonds, and zero-coupon bond securities.
His mission: to create the world's first zero-emission, hydrogen-based economy--and to pull it off through no-nonsense business principles, not tree-hugging wishful thinking.
Chile's many trade pacts give businesses based there zero- or low-tariff access to a market of almost 1.3 billion consumers, points out Karen Poniachik of the government's Foreign Investment Committee.
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Korean giant Samsung is offering its entire line on a two-year installment basis at zero interest -- an effective discount of 20% based on current financing costs.
Strange as it sounds, their goal is to raise the effective tax rate on foreign investments by U.S.-based multinationals to zero, or close to it.
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So we used this zero-book-value asset for financing based on the value of the library for TV syndication.
"The future of France in the family of great nations depends on our capacity for initiative - a value totally at variance with an enarque culture based on zero risk and suspicious of any idea of competition or power-sharing, " they said.
In each case, the policy is based on a recognition that there is no such thing as zero immigration, and that a managed, skills-based immigration policy will not only control inflows but also bring benefits to host countries.
The former Scotland Yard borough commander said his plan set no numerical targets but was based on "the simple principle of zero-tolerance".
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The 2011 Nissan LEAF, which uses no gas, was also rated best-in-class for the environment based on emitting zero greenhouse gases or other traditional tailpipe emissions.
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The "Race to Zero" was sponsored by CoreTrace, an Austin, Texas-based anti-virus software maker.
Custom Trojans are as hard for signature based anti-virus to catch as the dreaded zero-day threats which exploit previously unknown vulnerabilities.
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Waitrose, the U.K.-based supermarket chain, in October achieved its goal of sending zero food waste to landfills.
They've just released a firmware update for their Intel-based systems cleverly titled: "SMC Firmware Update 1.0, " with zero explanation as to the purpose of the update.
Price may not be much of a deterrent for the market Zero is targeting, but for those who might consider one of its bikes prohibitively expensive, a New York-based company, Evolve Motorcycles, will soon offer plug-in motorcycles and scooters as well.
Yet the problem for zero-boosters is that the lower you go, the trickier things get, argues Henry Sokolski of the Washington-based Non-proliferation Policy Education Centre.
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