(1) It would be fascinating to see if greater local government involvement in running the NHS in places such as Manchester leads over the longer term to a noticeable difference in the financial outlook.
(2) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(3) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
(4) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(5) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(6) Finally, before the advent of the third-party payment, operations were avoided because of the financial burden.
(7) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
(8) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(9) Private landowners are able to use property guardians to minimise their tax bills and, although it is hard to estimate, the potential financial loss to councils is substantial.
(10) "The level of the financial penalty to be imposed in this case should be sufficient to act as an effective incentive [to all broadcast licence holders] to continue to provide all elements of their respective licensed services throughout the licensed period, even if the licensee believes that there are commercial reasons for it to cease providing all or part of the licensed service during the licence period," the regulator added.
(11) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(12) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(13) The legs of that argument were cut off by the financial crisis.
(14) Given the financial crisis this government inherited, we had no choice but to make significant savings.
(15) Uncertainty and risk concerns remain in financial markets.
(16) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
(17) Yet private student loans – given out by banks and financial institutions to the students who can’t get a federal loan – don’t get as much attention as the federal system.
(18) BAE is likely to have made provision for much heavier penalties and its financial stability will not be threatened.
(19) Only 23% provided any financial support to younger generations.
(20) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
Spreadsheet
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(1) Given how Bank forecasts have been all over the shop, it is possible that the Old Lady's spreadsheet wizards could scupper Mr Carney's plans by spying a speck of price pressure and panicking about it turning into a giant inflationary boulder.
(2) A variety of spreadsheet templates can be created to analyze data for a standard curve, a Scatchard plot, or a binding competition curve.
(3) As data are entered into spreadsheet cells, the program simultaneously determines if the criteria for appropriate drug use are met.
(4) "Now we're just on a spreadsheet as assets to be disposed of, to be ticked off.
(5) PCs and games consoles had replaced the easily programmable machines of his youth, while schoolchildren were being taught to use word processors and spreadsheets instead of the code that created them.
(6) A spreadsheet program was written to perform decision tree analysis for control of paratuberculosis (Johne's disease), when testing all adults in a herd and culling all animals with positive test results.
(7) It arrived through diplomatic channels in the form of an unlabelled CD containing spreadsheets for the roughly 2,000 accounts now known in Greece as the "Lagarde list".
(8) A computer spreadsheet was used to examine the effect of manipulating the values of inputs affecting the optimal decision (ie, cost of a day a cow is not pregnant, conception rate, cost of the RMPA, test sensitivity and specificity, cost of insemination) over the range of values likely to be encountered.
(9) This "first-cut" ration can then be reworked in the spreadsheet mode to meet the needs of the individual farm based on other biologic and management considerations.
(10) A spreadsheet is included for the calculation of standard errors.
(11) The spreadsheets show, in great detail, how Samsung's business has fared in the US, and the slim margins that retailers and carriers take on the tablets and phones.
(12) In a separate spreadsheet, several MEPs are listed as having been met four or five times.
(13) Of 114 allegations of concern looked at in the spreadsheet up to January 2016, over a third were judged to be probably coalition air strikes.
(14) The application of spreadsheet software to aid in the calculation of treatment times for both rectangular and irregular radiation fields is presented.
(15) The spreadsheet shows that by 22 June last year, 233 MEPs – 31% of the total – had been met by PMI at least once.
(16) Possible, but once I'd linked it up via Bluetooth to a portable keyboard and found out how to download word processing, spreadsheets and presentation software it looked not quite so locked up as first appearances suggested.
(17) The scheme requires uniform input for the prediction programs, produced by any word processor, spreadsheet, editor or database program and produces uniform output on a printer, a graphics screen or a file.
(18) This study concerns the use of commercial software (a spreadsheet combined with database and graphic functions) to analyze data on kidney transplantation.
(19) By picking through the spreadsheets the "rock-star French economist" had placed online, the FT concluded that his key data appeared to be "constructed out of thin air".
(20) "The players on Roberto's list, it was like a spreadsheet.