Some investors, haunted by the continuing credit crunch and unemployment fears, are being driven to pull money out of stock funds to make up budget shortfalls.

一些投资者被持续的信贷危机和失业担忧所困扰，不得已从股市基金撤资来弥补预算的不足。

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Greece stands out for the size of its debt stock, the scale of its budget deficit and the grimness of its growth prospects given high domestic costs and an inability to devalue.

希腊债务的规模、预算赤字的比例、以及导因于高国内生产成本和无货币贬值能力的严峻成长远景，都使这个国家十分显眼。

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It is labouring under a budget deficit of 13.6% and a stock of debt equal to 115% of GDP.

在13.6%的赤字预算以及一大堆相当于自身115% GDP的债务情况下，万事难成。

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Management incentives, such as cash bonus or extra stock awards, are often tied to the budget.

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However, in the 1990s, the return of a booming economy allowed government spending cut-backs without harming the economy, which combined with a big surge in tax revenues from rising corporate profits, and capital gains taxes created by the explosive stock market of the 1990s, not only produced a balanced budget, but several years of large budget surpluses.

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Since the cold war gave way to the drug war, the Coast Guard's stock has risen, and against the trend of military cutbacks its budget has actually grown in real terms.

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