With 70 to 80 percent of their budget committed to personnel costs, districts say, they must cut staff in order to reap a significant savings.

由于学校百分之七八十的预算都用于给员工发工资，他们必须裁员才能较大幅度地节省开支。

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To achieve this, the United States is committed to returning the federal budget deficit to a sustainable path and pursuing measures to encourage private saving.

为实现这一目标，美国致力于将联邦预算赤字恢复到可维持的水平，并采取措施鼓励私人储蓄。

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Although he has said he will remain committed to the budget plan's Outlines, he has not ruled out raising taxes.

尽管它将会保留之前所承诺的财政预算的大纲，但是并没有排除加税这一条。

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The budget also committed more money to help the owners of small businesses to buy cars, the unemployed to find jobs and people in the countryside to get health care.

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This week, Mr Fox admitted that 87% of next year's budget is already committed to running costs and debt service.

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"When you realise that half the budget is already committed to contracts, that means effectively wiping out almost the entire new build programme for the next four years and that will have a tremendous impact on the construction trade in NI, " he warned.

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