WANTED: LOOSER PURSE-STRINGS The challenge for policymakers is convincing consumers to loosen their purse-strings in a slowdown, which has prompted concerns among policymakers about jobs.
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But now Democrats control the House, and the purse strings.
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It is Congress that ultimately controls the government's purse strings.
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And it's starting to show up in tighter purse strings.
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Fortunately, Congress, which holds the purse strings, is pushing back.
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However, Congress controls the purse strings and can reject arms sales.
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"Banks are just starting to loosen the purse strings," he said.
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Congress controls the federal purse strings and has its own plan.
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Your days of using the purse strings to guarantee love are over!
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Congress holds the federal purse strings and seldom approves presidents' budget plans.
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The strategy was Mr. Immelt's, but Mr. Bornstein held the purse strings.
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Go deeper: Netflix tightens its purse strings for film and TV projects
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Many wives remain stuck with husbands who hold power and purse strings.
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Presidential budgets are often ignored by Congress, which controls federal purse strings.
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If that results in smaller losses, investors may loosen their purse strings.
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Also hurting engineers was weak global industrial demand, which tightened clients' purse strings.
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The people, the pulpit, the purse strings, the guns, all of it. Everything.
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Additionally, healthcare systems are under pressure from aging populations and tightening purse strings.
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China has room to ease reserve requirements for banks and loosen government purse strings.
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Congress holds NASA's purse strings, so ultimately the decision lies with that august body.
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So, much like Britain's Parliament or the U.S. Congress, it controls the purse strings.
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Collins has broad support among Republicans who control the medical research agency's purse strings.
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Johnson said May appeared willing to loosen the purse-strings in the short run.
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And the charmlike bags gained traction, exerting an outsize pull on women's purse strings.
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Consumers are expected to tighten their purse strings as an economic downturn hits China.
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Until governments loosen the purse-strings, the ECB has no choice but to act.
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But lawmakers control the federal government's purse strings, and had already signaled their disapproval.
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But Congress holds the purse strings that dictate how executive branch agencies are funded.
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Thirdly, he believes that the EU should loosen its purse strings and relax budgetary rules.
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NASA, and especially Congress, which holds the purse strings, need to figure this shit out.
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Now the oil price is creeping back up, which means purse-strings may be tightened.
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Under U.S. law, Congress controls the government's purse strings, and lawmakers rarely enact presidential budgets.
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A Brexit-spurred slide in sterling has also forced Britons to tighten their purse strings.
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Meanwhile, their parents don't expect to cut the purse strings until their children are 228.
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Mr. Tillerson tightened the purse strings to signal displeasure with Mr. Sisi for several reasons.
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But those who hold the purse strings of the planet need to do much more.
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Without political leverage, Brussels would end up holding the purse but not the purse strings.
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The first is that Republicans in Congress are much less keen on loosening the purse-strings.
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From an individual economic perspective, however, the only thing that's tightening may be your purse strings.
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Loosening the purse strings would help both the economy and Bank of England Governor Mark Carney.
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Don't freak out yet: This is just a budget request, while Congress holds the purse strings.
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Your love for the show fuels us creatively but it also opens the purse strings up.
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Concerned officials are loosening fiscal purse strings and cutting bank reserve requirements to support infrastructure investment.
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Sales of clothing were sluggish as Japanese consumers tightened their purse strings on slow wage growth.
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It costs money to run the government, and it's Congress's job to manage the purse strings.
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When people's investment accounts have risen they feel wealthier and tend to loosen their purse strings.
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GarPax apologists point to the duo's hands, which are bound by Reinsdorf's notoriously tight purse-strings.
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Rousseff loosened public purse strings in an attempt to spend her way out of a slowdown.
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Another incentive to go public now is a tightening of purse strings at private investment firms.
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Lately, though, consumers say they are tightening their purse strings and saving more of their income.
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What is certain is that she will certainly call on Germany to loosen the purse strings.
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But Republicans in charge of NIH's purse strings quickly made it clear those cuts wouldn't happen.
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However, oil and gas prices have also plummeted, forcing the company to tighten its purse strings.
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Hopes are that this will chivvy tight-fisted euro zone goverments into loosening their purse strings.
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Under the Constitution, Congress holds the national purse strings and approves major expenditures of taxpayer funds.
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All that has changed under the junta, which has kept a firmer grip on the purse-strings.
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Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the national purse strings and approves major expenditures of taxpayer funds.
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So Bernie and Hillary are still fighting for votes; yet she&aposs pulling all the purse strings.
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China has also faced slowed growth in its own economy, causing Beijing to tighten its purse strings.
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After years of demand growing faster than funding, the government looks poised to loosen the purse strings.
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Previously Mr Madigan controlled party purse strings, but a big alternative source of resources is now available.
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The data from CB Insights offers new evidence that investors have responded by tightening their purse strings.
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Venture capitalists have already tightened purse strings as ripples from China's economic slowdown lap around the world.
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Even with gas prices at multi-year lows, falling real median incomes have further tightened purse strings.
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"One-hundred and fifty head of ponies control the purse strings of the entire island," said Bowden.
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People have seen the stock market rising, believe they are wealthier, and are loosening their purse strings.
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What changed was that Republicans, having swept the 2016 election, now fully control the government's purse strings.
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Mr. Ye also further loosened CEFC's purse strings, donating as much as $100,000 to the Clinton Foundation.
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But ultimately, Congress controls the federal purse strings, and lawmakers with parochial interests are already weighing in.
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Johnson is already loosening the purse strings after nearly 53 years of cuts for many public services.
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From Brazil, those holding the purse strings on citizens' behalf must learn that museums are not forever.
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It's also unclear whether this provision will be supported in Congress, which ultimately controls the purse strings.
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But New York opened its purse strings wide and has offered to the tune of $2000 billion.
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Many of China's infrastructure projects in Africa have been costly flops, and China is tightening its purse strings.
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Congress ultimately controls the government purse strings and may reject some or many of the Trump administration's proposals.
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But since the Republican-controlled Congress controls the purse strings, much of Obama's plan likely will be shelved.
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If growth falls below 1%, as is likely, then the chancellor is allowed to loosen the purse strings.
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Mr. Cruz has long been a proponent of waging policy fights with the Obama administration via purse strings.
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Max Posner's play about a grown son managing the finances of his ailing mother closes its purse strings.
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SPENDING Johnson is already loosening the purse strings after nearly 10 years of cuts for many public services.
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Increasing diversity among those who control the purse strings will also change the power dynamic, the #Angels say.
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That's why Uber has also struck a separate relationship with Daimler that is easier on its purse strings.
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The budget request must be passed by Congress, which controls federal purse strings and rarely enacts presidential budgets.
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David Perdue of Georgia introduced a bill this week that would give lawmakers control over the CFPB's purse strings.
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Both kowtow to the wealthy grandfather, Old Man Beckersted, who ultimately controls the purse strings and loathes them both.
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Both took over from leftist predecessors who sought to stimulate the economy with loose purse strings and interventionist measures.
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The market rout among tech stocks earlier this year caused some venture capitalists to further tighten their purse strings.
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Mr. Graham contends that this provision infringes on Congress's constitutional role in controlling the purse strings, an arguable proposition.
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With Christmas looming (yes, we went there), now is a good time to tighten the purse strings where possible.
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With these prices on the rise and domestic electricity costs also soaring, family purse strings are likely to tighten.
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This control over the purse strings has long been a source of support for Mr. Erdogan and his party.
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But many analysts expect inflation to remain subdued as slow wage growth keep households from loosening their purse strings.
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Billionaires in key markets like China, Brazil and Russia have tightened their purse strings in response to weakening economies.
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Both parties promise to end economic austerity and relax the purse strings for stretched public services before the Dec.
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The gender gap extends to bank lending, and in Silicon Valley men have the power and the purse strings.
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Granted, a public backlash against austerity in many countries has made politicians more willing to loosen the purse strings.
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While feminist advocates have tended to concentrate on laws and social policy, gender budgeting focuses on the national purse-strings.
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It isn't just actresses who deal with this, it's women in every industry whose purse strings are controlled by men.
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It's all geared to be as easy on the purse strings as possible, so buy your pass now and save.
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The National Rifle Association's paid puppets in Congress hold the purse strings that would fund much of Mr. Obama's agenda.
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If there is any holiday that preys on your heartstrings and, more so, your purse strings, it is this one.
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In addition, other indicators of consumer spending habits have begun to flatline or suggest households may tighten their purse strings.
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Elliott explained that, if the current situation escalates into a trade war, consumers and businesses would tighten their purse strings.
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Holidays have always been popular release dates for Hindi movies—children are out of school and purse strings are loosened.
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He loosened the purse strings, which made it harder for Beck to say no to the occasional lunch or visit.
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Republicans who control the U.S. Congress - and the federal purse strings - will decide whether to make the politically sensitive cuts.
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THEATER Max Posner's play about a grown son managing his ailing mother's finances, closes its purse strings on Nov. 5.
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Their purse strings are controlled by Congress, which routinely provides less funding than the S.E.C., C.F.T.C. and other agencies request.
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Bypassing Congress' constitutional control of the nation's purse strings would lead to certain legal challenges and bipartisan charges of executive overreach.
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As all this other stuff is going on, it's interesting to ... Now you've got the purse strings, or some of them.
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It is a major driver of the economy and an important barometer of Chinese consumers' willingness to open their purse strings.
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We've been hearing a lot about cooling valuations for once-hot startups and a general tightening of the VC purse strings.
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Though Congress holds the purse strings for Special Operations, decisions about individual missions are not generally put before them for approval.
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And if you learn anything about sales, it is that you want to pitch the person that holds the purse strings.
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Sales of business jets have slumped as companies, oil tycoons and billionaires tighten their purse strings amid an uncertain global economy.
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To them, and to the politicians who control the purse strings, plastering the world with flags is a sign of success.
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On the back of the December passage of corporate tax reform, businesses have unleashed the purse strings so far this year.
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But he has done so with a firm grip on the purse strings, insisting that European budget rules must be respected.
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There, he fell in with a group of economists who believed the Soviets could be pulled down by the purse strings.
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That confidence is leading consumers to loosen their purse strings, said Diane Swonk, an economist for the accounting firm Grant Thornton.
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It's obvious that such an oversight group must be independently funded — Facebook can't control the purse strings — but that's not enough.
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Congress, whose members still hold the purse strings, should not allow the Trump administration's grievous and ill-considered decision to stand.
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But the waiting time for board approval may be a sign companies are in no rush to loosen the purse strings.
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Although Republicans control both the Senate and House of Representatives, Congress holds the federal purse strings and seldom approves presidents' budget plans.
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Sales of business jets have slumped as an uncertain global economy forces companies, oil tycoons and billionaires to tighten their purse strings.
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Demand for corporate jets has been subdued as companies, oil tycoons and billionaires tighten their purse strings amid an uncertain global economy.
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But he said that even as operators tighten their purse strings, the company had built "significant flexibility" into its 2019 operating plan.
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Likewise, Kadyrov was challenging Moscow openly, even though Moscow controls his purse strings and has 10 soldiers for every one of his.
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Housewife Yuko Narita, 1353, says she is tightening the family purse strings and scouting around for sales on daily goods and clothing.
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WE DON'T WANT IT TO BE A VISIT TO McDONALD'S OR THEY MAY JUST WANT TO TIGHTEN THE PURSE STRINGS A BIT.
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The reason to control the party machinery in a state still run by a party machine is to control the purse strings.
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So, politics, because these people in Congress who pull the purse strings have a lot of districts where NASA centers are located.
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Once that happens, he said, the employment rate will inevitably tick up and consumers will tighten their purse strings out of fear.
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"It's still too early to say, 'Let's loosen the purse strings,'" said Michael Bellisario, senior research analyst at Robert W. Baird & Company.
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A handful of mega-galleries, and their oligarch-artists, hold the purse-strings and power, making price tags matter more than profundity.
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Besides my personal experiences as a woman, I knew the evidence showed that my gender mattered to the people pulling purse strings.
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Neither party is going to tighten the purse strings and refuse stimulus, targeted or otherwise, as the economy continues to shut down.
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A congressional committee that controls NASA's purse strings just included $10 million more in a budget bill for the development of Neocam.
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These put a multilateral sheen on projects in which Beijing controls the purse strings and also makes the rules of the game.
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"He is making a very sensible calculation," said a former U.S. official, noting that Congress, not the president, holds the purse strings.
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Trump's initial budget outline for discretionary spending received a tepid response from Congress, which controls the purse strings, and, ultimately, government spending.
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"People's purse strings are clearly caught in a tug of war between enjoying the present and saving for the future," Holbrook says.
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And there are other ways, like Pell Grants that students use, that tie the federal government to the purse strings of HBCUs.
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Its television commercials with scenes of men, women and their families coping with deep emotional pain pull at the heart and purse strings.
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It's not as though teams tightened their purse strings in the offseason and had to let players walk or could not attract players.
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Not to mention a hand on the purse strings: HHS is the largest single source of funding for medical research in the world.
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Congress could leverage its control of the Justice Department's nominees and purse strings to ensure its safekeeping while other matters were sorted out.
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Powerful chief ministers sitting in the provinces will be more dependent on revenue collected federally and less on purse-strings they control themselves.
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Much as local governments are happy to get transfer payments, it implies that officials in Beijing have more control over the purse strings.
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"Mr Draghi's calls for a loosening of the purse strings will go unheard, at least for now," BNP Paribas economist Luigi Speranza said.
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The challenge for policymakers is convincing consumers to loosen their purse-strings in a slowdown, which has prompted concerns among policymakers about jobs.
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Since Congress ultimately controls the federal government's purse strings, much of what Mr. Trump proposed in his budget is unlikely to become reality.
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Congress holds the federal purse strings and often ignores presidential budgets, which are proposals and may not take effect in its current form.
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But he wants to control the purse strings to make sure Kevin isn't squandering the cash on matters unrelated to Sean and Jayden.
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Since passing the budget deal, appropriators — the lawmakers in charge of the nation's purse strings — have been negotiating how to allocate the money.
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In general, the herd of money-losing on-demand startups has thinned in the past year or so as venture capital purse strings tightened.
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The question now is whether Tsipras has built up enough goodwill with EU partners to further loosen the purse strings to win over voters.
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It is possible that stock market gains could boost consumer spending because people sometimes loosen their purse strings after a rise in perceived wealth.
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Worries about China's overall economic situation led people to tighten their purse strings during July and August, CAAM assistant secretary general Xu Haidong said.
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There is little chance of those cuts becoming real, as presidential budgets are rarely enacted by the U.S. Congress, which controls federal purse strings.
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Local officials hold the purse strings and hold them tight -- unless there is bad publicity such as a high-profile murder or accidental death.
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Lacker made the comment when asked how the U.S. central bank would react if the incoming Trump administration and Congress loosened fiscal purse strings.
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Large-scale research projects cost money, though, and when it comes to gun violence, the federal purse strings have been drawn tight for decades.
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Since passing the budget deal, appropriators — the lawmakers in charge of the nation's purse strings — have been negotiating how to actually allocate the money.
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Workers who have been with an organization that was tightening the purse strings might find a better offer as companies start being more profitable.
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But those now aged 18-35 are a bit looser with the purse strings, willing to buy on credit and take loans from family.
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In his first two years in office, Trump's Republicans controlled both chambers of Congress, which under the U.S. Constitution holds the national purse strings.
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Rather than dropping your entire budget on a single fancy one now, keep your purse strings on lock with an under-$50 option to start.
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This restriction on out-of-pocket spending is important because it ensures Congress retains complete control over the government's purse strings, as the Constitution requires.
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With consumers tightening their purse strings, inflation growth has slowed significantly, leading economists to dial back their expectations for an interest rate hike to December.
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Costa has opened the purse strings in two areas: rolling back austerity with lower taxes, especially for those on lower wages, and raising public pensions.
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But if the candidate was convicted of embezzlement or money laundering, he or she is probably not the best person to hold the purse strings.
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And instead of responding by giving ICE the money it needs to keep holding more immigrants, Congress is reminding ICE who holds the purse strings.
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Recent data, including retail sales and household spending, suggested consumers tightened their purse strings following the sales tax hike, highlighting worries about weak consumer demand.
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China has tightened the purse strings on foreign investment, but the government's crackdown could completely backfire, hurting the very companies it's seeking to firm up.
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Outside the property sector, indicators are weak with official retail figures showing Australians tightening their purse strings and consumers and business sentiment surveys remaining gloomy.
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But as the economy has slowed and the government has begun tightening its purse strings, signs of strain in the labor market have started to show.
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In his attempts to address such disparities, Mr Wyatt will be constrained by his Liberal party's conservative social agenda and by the government's tight purse strings.
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That's caused potential repeat LPs for SoftBank's massive Vision Fund to tighten their purse strings and other late-stage investors to focus on sustainable unit economics.
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After a long recession, Spaniards have gradually loosened their purse strings over the past year, encouraged by lower unemployment and inflation and, latterly, falling oil prices.
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A former CDC official told Vox it's not uncommon for officials to avoid using language in budget discussions that might offend those holding the purse strings.
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In Karnataka, a southern state of 64m people (about as many as in France), parties have been loosening their purse strings for a crucial limbering-up.
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Yet data from Adobe Digital Insights shows that instead of loosening their purse strings after the votes were counted, online shoppers dramatically cut back their spending.
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However, any incentive to loosen the purse strings is also a slippery slope, particularly as the pain from the downturn — now a decade behind us — subsides.
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Three music labels, Universal (owned by Vivendi), Sony, and Warner Music, account for 85033 percent of all music revenues — meaning they still hold the purse strings.
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I think it's interesting that he assumes that she works for Varga — frankly, it seems far more likely that she's the source of Varga's purse strings.
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Other countries, including long-term budget hawks such as Germany, are also considering loosening the fiscal purse-strings in the face of a weaker world economy.
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In the clearest sign of this shift, the heavily indebted Italy is increasingly inclined to challenge Germany — the guardian of austerity — to loosen European purse strings.
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Now, Fiedler said, "creatives have the power to stir the imagination of people who hold the purse strings," such that projects like Chevy Commons are possible.
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Heavily indebted, Tunisia's next government, like its last, will have to navigate popular demands to relax public purse strings while foreign lenders push for spending cuts.
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Lawmakers are loathe to take difficult votes on military force, however they do, to some extent, control the President's ability by controlling the national purse strings.
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Some officials said that even two quarters of contracting gross domestic product -- a recession -- might not be enough to persuade Berlin to loosen its purse strings.
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In October, the court stripped the National Assembly of its power to review the annual budget, leaving Mr. Maduro in charge of the country's purse strings.
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But since the Republican-controlled Congress controls the purse strings, much of Obama's plan likely will be shelved and so it is primarily a political document.
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The White House plan will have to be run by Congress, which controls the nation's purse strings, but some specifics are already becoming clear at government agencies.
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A quick civics primer: The legislative branch of government manages the nation's purse strings, allocating money to federal agencies and authorizing how those funds can be used.
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But, with China's economy growing at its slowest pace in a quarter of a century last year, there are concerns that consumers are tightening their purse strings.
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After years of tightening the purse strings in favor of restoring fiscal credibility, the spending plan reinforces public investment by 600 million euros to 1.35 billion euros.
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When a government taxes a product, he believes, not only does it make people tighten their purse strings, it sends a signal that an item is dangerous.
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Economic weakness coupled with rising prices and a squeeze on wages have made price comparison websites increasingly popular as consumers look to tighten their purse strings. Gocompare.
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At the same time, it plans to boost spending for the Pentagon -- plans that will ultimately have to be approved by Congress, which controls the purse strings.
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The House Republican overseeing the purse strings for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is pushing back on President Trump's proposed funding cuts for the agency. Rep.
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Several major British retailers have faced financial trouble in recent months, as consumers tightened their purse-strings in response to higher inflation following 2016's Brexit vote.
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The recent shallow Pride pandering from YouTube while they clutch their purse strings tighter around algorithmically-enforced hate speech click generators demonstrates that this is not enough.
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Obama said he needs Congress to open the purse strings to help expand treatment, particularly in rural areas, and applauded bipartisan legislation designed to combat the problem.
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The economic collapse of 2008 forced many Americans to cling tighter to their purse strings, and forced many shoppers to more aggressively hunt for low-cost options.
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But record-high employment and rising real wages are helping German consumers' loosen their purse strings, making private consumption the most important growth driver of the economy.
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Deflation can hit demand as consumers tighten their purse strings and companies pull back on investments in anticipation of falling prices, hurting the economy in the process.
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It hopes that by controlling the country's purse strings, it can persuade recalcitrant militia leaders in Tripoli to accept, or at least not attack, the unity government.
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Earl Woods loosened the purse strings after his son said he felt at a disadvantage because he could not see the course ahead of his first round.
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Democrats argue there is no border emergency and that Trump is overreaching with his declaration given that the Constitution grants Congress the power of the purse strings.
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He bounds back to the present with this tale of a free-spending aging mother and the grown son assigned to keep control of her purse strings.
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But any incentive to loosen the purse strings is also a slippery slope, particularly as the pain from the last recession — now a decade behind us — subsides.
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The couple definitely won't struggle to get by, but CNBC takes a look at how else the Sussexes could raise income after cutting the royal purse strings.
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Congress controls the federal purse strings and lawmakers typically ignore the vast majority of what the president requests unless it already aligns with their own funding plans.
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He bounds back to the present with this tale of an aging, free-spending mother and the grown son assigned to keep control of her purse strings.
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Movie studios (and the executives who hold the purse strings) are often allergic to risk, which means experimentation isn't as common in movies meant for a broad audience.
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"Current low prices will tighten the producers' purse strings and reduce their desires to plant marginal acres around the central U.S.," said Jerry Gidel, analyst with Rice Dairy.
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Indebted euro zone governments that loosen the purse strings risk falling out of favour with investors, particularly if economic growth slows, the European Central Bank said on Thursday.
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It's usually suggested that whoever controls the pairing's purse strings has embarked on a massive micromanagement conspiracy to prevent the couple from revealing their love to the world.
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So a slowdown in buybacks could indicate that companies are tightening their purse strings amidst slowing growth, trade uncertainties, and warnings of a rough earnings season to come.
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As a marketer rather than a financier like Mr Hees, Mr Patricio may, despite his 3G pedigree, be happier to loosen the purse-strings for investments and research.
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A more confident group of consumers are expected to loosen their purse strings this holiday, and are seen sparking an acceleration in retail sales growth over last year.
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Then the government said, "Hang on a minute, let's pull the purse strings a bit here," and they recruited more people but refused to pay any more overtime.
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Since Congress ultimately controls the purse strings, Army marketing leaders addressed the Senate and House Armed Services Committees in January 2018, after Adweek broke news of the audit.
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Congress isn't totally toothless, though: It can still make new laws, control the purse strings of the federal government, and block Trump's ability to appoint new federal officials.
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First buses, now Shenzhen has turned its taxis electric in green push As consumers tighten their purse strings amid the economic downturn, cheaper secondhand cars become more appealing.
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Mr. Spain and another Black Rock homeowner, David M. Walker, are among the residents who want a financial oversight board to take hold of the city's purse strings.
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Corporate buybacks are "plummeting" as companies tighten their purse strings, and it could have a big impact on the market, Goldman Sachs warned in a note to clients.
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She declined to say how deep those cuts would turn out to be, saying she was in discussions with members of Congress who ultimately control the purse strings.
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But if the government did decide to loosen its purse strings, its fiscal wiggle room would be limited by a strict legal framework enshrined in the German constitution.
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To oppose it meant risking detention without trial, costly libel suits or extreme marginalization in a country where the state controls most purse strings and levers of power.
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The center-right drew about 37 percent of the vote promising to loosen the state's purse strings by passing a "flat tax" of 23 percent for all households.
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Farmers in Britain will have to compete for government funds with departments such as health and education once Brussels hands over the purse strings for farming budgets to London.
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It'll have to go through government agencies and, theoretically, Congress, which controls the purse strings through bills to authorize programs and then separate bills to appropriate money for them.
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Having tightened its purse strings for a couple of years, in recent months it has made it easier for municipal officials to raise funds for building railways and highways.
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An administration official said the White House proposed the cuts despite an assumption that Congress, which controls U.S. purse strings, would allocate more money on spending than Trump wants.
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"We are not seeing a pickup in durable goods purchases, which suggests consumers are tightening the purse strings," said Hiroshi Miyazaki, senior economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities.
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The sub-zero party faces a potential challenge from the possibility that European governments might loosen their purse strings in a last-ditch bid to shore up flailing economies.
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"Now that the election is over, things should partly return to normal and consumers should loosen the purse strings a bit more," Neil Saunders, CEO of Conlumino, told CNBC.
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"As long as income growth remains steady, expect consumers to loosen their purse strings in the coming months," said Jay Morelock, an economist at FTN Financial in New York.
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But as Beijing moves to cool the housing market, slow new credit and tighten its purse strings, China will have to depend more on domestic consumption and private investment.
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In this article, I give you five tactics with step-by-step advice and word-by-word scripts that are proven to make your boss loosen the purse strings.
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While the Fed turned to tightening, in Europe, however, the European Central Bank was loosening the purse strings further in a bid to stimulate growth and ward of deflation.
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The relevant regional powers for the Houthis are Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah — influential certainly, but not supplying troops nor holding the purse strings or controlling the tap on armaments.
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And there inevitably comes a point where, as a parent, you need to cut the purse strings, confident you have raised an independent adult who can sustain themselves financially.
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Central banks have said they are ready to respond — the U.S. Federal Reserve has already cut interest rates — but that governments will also need to loosen the purse strings.
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A former Access executive told CNBC that the tightening of the purse strings wasn't directed by Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat, but due to decreased interest from the founders.
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Her unwillingness to loosen Europe's purse strings while Germany, Europe's No. 1 economy, benefits substantially from the euro currency, makes her anything but a heroine in many feminist eyes.
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"People's purse-strings are clearly caught in a tug of war between enjoying the present and saving for the future," says Emily Holbrook, director of planning for Northwestern Mutual.
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But analysts expect 2017 to play out well for Indian software service exports as banking and financial services in the United States begin to loosen purse strings for tech spending.
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While Congress technically holds the federal purse strings, the Trump administration wants to cut the USGS budget by 2306 percent, to $22017 million in 2019 from $1.08 billion in 2017.
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The plans will ultimately have to be approved by Congress, which controls the purse strings, and several members on both sides of the aisle have been critical of the reductions.
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Amgen has offered various strategies in an effort to loosen payer purse strings, such as a willingness to reimburse the drug's cost if a Repatha patient has a heart attack.
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Ironically, failure by the government to invest to avoid a recession now means it faces the prospects of having to loosen its purse strings if Germany soon falls into one.
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Economists and analysts say it is time to loosen the purse strings and let the fiscal deficit climb above the targetted 3.3% until the economy is back on its feet.
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The center right as a bloc drew 37 percent of the vote promising to loosen the state's purse strings by passing a "flat tax" of 23 percent for all households.
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Joules, known for its hand-drawn or hand-painted prints, said its e-commerce channel has also been impacted but to a lesser extent as customers tighten their purse strings.
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On Sunday, each team surely wished it had loosened the purse strings to pay for a veteran established kicker instead of the young low-cost versions they put in uniform.
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THE LIGHTBULB Democrats are mounting an end-run around the Trump administration's plans to open public lands to oil drilling and other development-- by going straight to the purse strings.
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One signature dispute between the state attorneys general and plaintiffs for cities, counties and tribes is about how settlement money will be disbursed and who will control the purse strings.
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President Trump announced the end of the payments just last week, arguing the previous administration never had the authority to make them given Congress's control over the nation's purse strings.
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Yet Valentine's Day, and the days leading up to it, is the peak season for scammers who prey on the heart strings, and purse strings, of those looking for love.
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)China's central bank is further loosening its purse strings as the country grapples with a slumping economy and a prolonged trade war with the United States.
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Economists and analysts say it is time to loosen the purse strings and let the fiscal deficit climb above the targeted 3.3% until the economy is back on its feet.
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Abbas recently established a new "constitutional" court to oversee lower courts and packed it with his Fatah political party accomplices to intentionally enhance his control of power and purse-strings.
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It was not the policy but merely the procedure, the stripping of the power of Congress to control the purse strings, that was the precipitating cause for this mini-revolt.
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That has prompted the government, under pressure to cut an unemployment rate among Saudi citizens that is officially put at 12.8 percent, to plan on loosening its purse strings next year.
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The Dodd-Frank law, which created the bureau, specifically placed the agency under the Fed's purse-strings to ensure its independence and limit the influence of payday lenders and bank lobbyists.
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The government is under pressure to loosen the purse strings to follow through on election promises such as increased spending on roads and housing and tax cuts for companies and individuals.
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Jeffery Nance, asked the prosecution whether McCain could have an indirect influence on the case because he is a member of Congress, which ultimately holds the purse strings for the military.
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The belief that Soros controls the puppet strings of liberals and the purse strings of the Democratic party has leaked out of neo-Nazism and is now entrenched among mainstream Republicans.
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In a report published earlier on Thursday, the ECB warned indebted euro zone governments that loosen the purse strings risk falling out of favour with investors, particularly if economic growth slows.
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But the downbeat estimation could lead to calls on the government to swiftly open its purse strings and add pressure to the Bank of Japan to ease monetary policy this month.
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The House subcommittee controlling the purse strings of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Wednesday proposed a $1.1 billion boost for the agency, defying the Trump administration's push for cuts.
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The firms we started in recessions had an easier time finding talent, controlling costs, and getting immediate feedback about if this thing worked as clients/consumers held their purse strings closed.
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While consumers are loosening their purse strings, Brazilian companies must deal with heavy debt loads and employ idle capacity before they boost investment in new machines or facilities, economic data shows.
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Executives at the world's biggest oil and gas companies are under growing pressure to loosen the purse strings to replenish reserves and halt declines in crude production after years of austerity.
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Scholz said there would be no loosening of the public purse strings in response to the slowdown, as the government needed a fiscal reserve in case of a serious economic crisis.
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With these budget caps, appropriators — the lawmakers in charge of the nation's purse strings — can begin putting together a trillion-dollar spending bill that would fund the government through next September.
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It could be harder still for companies that target smaller businesses, Lemkin said, who are going to have the tightest purse strings and the least flexibility in any kind of downturn.
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For all its flaws, the state was no mere puppet, and as a generation of American statesmen discovered, control of Saigon's purse-strings in no way bestowed control over its politics.
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But at the consumer bureau, Mr. Mulvaney has real say over how much money is requested from the Federal Reserve, which controls the agency's purse strings, and how much is spent.
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This is taking place at a time when its economy is slowing down, leading different economists and institutions, including the European Central Bank, to suggest Berlin should loosen the purse strings.
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As the tax increase goes into effect Tuesday, the big question for Japan and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is whether consumers like Mr. Sugiuchi will start to tighten their purse strings.
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An economic survey on Wednesday meanwhile showed the fires were causing Australians to tighten their purse strings, a sign the natural disaster is putting pressure on the world's 2100th-biggest economy.
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In the years since Ukraine's revolution ushered in a pro-Western government, the United States, the International Monetary Fund and other donors loosened the purse strings to offer Kiev foreign aid.
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Industrial output slipped at the fastest pace in nearly two years in October while retail sales and household spending slumped after consumers tightened their purse strings following the sales tax hike.
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Beijing is now trying to persuade consumers to loosen their purse strings and has pledged to provide subsidies to boost rural sales of some vehicles and purchases of new energy vehicles.
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Yet Valentine's Day, and the days leading up to it, are the peak season for fraudsters who prey on the heart strings, and purse strings, of those looking for love online.
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The Democratic National Committee has long talked about the need to start competing early in every district, but those who control the purse strings are deploying a much more targeted approach.
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Republicans who control the U.S. Congress - and the federal purse strings - will decide whether to make politically sensitive cuts, and the proposal is unlikely to be approved in its current form.
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As the man holding the purse strings, Aubrey needs to get a good deal on price but he worries that a couple of hundred medicines in Britain now have only one supplier.
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Women control 51% of household purse strings, so I'm pretty confident that a female-run company will know how to properly target and market products and services to 50.8% of our population.
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But as the government moves to cool the housing market, slow new credit and tighten its purse strings, China will have to depend more on domestic consumption and private investment for growth.
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The Mercers maintained close control over the group's purse strings, installing Ms. Conway to oversee the group and coordinate with several other pro-Cruz groups, an unusual move for a super PAC.
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Dividing the responsibilities of the director, who sets a museum's curatorial mission, from those of the chief executive, who controls the purse strings, was a fashion in the 1980s and early '90s.
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The president's emergency declaration was a flagrant violation of Congress's constitutional prerogative to control the federal purse strings, an issue dear to the majority leader, a longtime member of the Appropriations Committee.
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Like many planners, Ms. Goldblatt will work with couples who tether themselves to tight purse strings, though perhaps not the less-than-$10,000 couples (unless they have a small number of guests).
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Merkel's comments suggest her conservatives could resist any moves by the SPD-led Finance Ministry that they believe go too far in loosening the purse strings to fight any downward economic spiral.
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Merkel's comments suggest her conservatives could resist any moves by the SPD-led Finance Ministry that they believe go too far in loosening the purse strings to fight any downward economic spiral.
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With civilians incensed by the junta's harsh ineptitude, and the American hands holding its purse strings starting to tremble, Saigon's military regime was compelled to dangle carrots in addition to brandishing sticks.
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"As the purse strings of OTT consumers tighten, there is tremendous opportunity for free ad-based services to thrive," wrote Steve Nason, an analyst at Parks Associates, in a post in November.
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He is now, however, under pressure to loosen the purse strings to follow through on election promises such as increased spending on roads and housing and tax cuts for companies and individuals.
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The current model, the C7, was officially put on hold as GM went through bankruptcy, though a secret "skunkworks" team kept plugging away until the automaker could loosen up the purse strings again.
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The numbers will be an important window into how tightly consumers held on to their purse strings in 2015, and how retailers are faring as Amazon continues to dominate the e-commerce ground.
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Despite mounting calls from economists and international institutions, cash-rich euro zone governments such as Germany have been reluctant to loosen the purse strings, fearing they would end up subsidizing their indebted neighbors.
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On October 31st AstraZeneca, a multinational based in Cambridge, warned that pharma companies would leave unless Britain's health service loosened its famously tight purse-strings when it comes to paying for breakthrough drugs.
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In the euro zone, where currency union leaves countries much more vulnerable to debt crises, austerity pushed Greece into depression, and Germany's reluctance to loosen its purse-strings has slowed Europe's economic rebalancing.
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It is the first volley in what is expected to be an intense battle over spending in coming months in Congress, which holds the federal purse strings and seldom approves presidents' budget plans.
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Price growth in the euro zone, the ECB's sole official goal, is slowly heading toward its target of almost 2 percent, and the institution has laid out plans to tighten the purse strings.
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Yet another source argued that trouble in one or two countries wouldn't be reason enough to loosen the purse strings, though, "unless it hampered the transmission of monetary policy in the euro area".
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As things stand, advertisers control the purse strings of practically all of the most visited websites (Wikipedia, the only nonprofit significant numbers of people use regularly, is the exception that proves the rule).
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Indebted euro zone governments that loosen the purse strings risk falling out of favor with investors, particularly if economic growth slows, the European Central Bank said in a report on Thursday.
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With these budget caps, appropriators — the lawmakers in charge of the nation's purse strings — can begin putting together a trillion-dollar spending bill that would fund the government through next September, are stalled.
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And if they aren't useful to the people who hold the purse strings — if they can't raise funds — then how are they supposed to make more money, and start more world-disrupting businesses?
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In our research, we have found that financial dependence is associated with a lack of passion, creativity and drive, and is also associated with feelings of resentment towards whomever controls the purse strings.
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Price growth in the euro zone, the ECB's sole official goal, is slowly heading towards its target of almost 2 percent, and the institution has laid out plans to tighten the purse strings.
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And Georgieva has cultivated an alliance with France's president, Macron, since 2015 when he was an upstart junior economy minister, and she was the European Commission vice president holding the bloc's purse strings.
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As Katie Benner has reported over the last week, more women in tech are starting to speak out about the harassment they have faced from the men who control the industry's purse strings.
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On Wednesday, the six men and two women who hold the purse strings for their states and territories announced that they had agreed to a government proposal to exempt such items from taxes.
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However, Hammond's options for a significant loosening of the purse strings appear limited, not only by his fiscally hawkish instincts and Britain's still weak public finances, but also by the Conservative Party's diminished clout.
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The leftist allies have put pressure on the Socialists this year to open the purse strings, with the economy growing strongly and the budget deficit having been cut to its lowest level in decades.
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Olaf Scholz, the SPD mayor of Hamburg, is set to become finance minister, the DPA news agency reported, which would give the centre-left party control over the purse strings of Europe's largest economy.
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TORONTO/VANCOUVER (Reuters) - After five years of painful belt-tightening, the world's biggest gold miners are starting to cautiously loosen their purse strings and spend more money to find new deposits and build mines.
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Automobile sales fell for the third straight month in September, down 11.6 percent from a year earlier, as worries about the economy prompted consumers to tighten their purse-strings and forego big-ticket purchases.
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Scholz's remarks that Germany would loosen the purse strings to fight any downward economic spiral came days before world financial leaders meet in Washington to discuss how best to counter a slowing world economy.
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Kim not only has rounded off his spiky dictator image; he also may have softened the hearts and loosened the purse strings of the leaders of South Korea, Japan, perhaps even China and Singapore.
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"He is making a very sensible calculation," said a former U.S. official, noting that Congress, not the president, holds the purse strings and is almost certain to reject many of the administration's proposed cuts.
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It is Gordon, not Moore, who has Liverpool's direct line to F.S.G.'s principal owner, John W. Henry, who controls the purse strings on major financial decisions, be they player acquisitions or anything else.
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With the threat of tightening purse strings looming over the Northwest Territories, there is a very real possibility that the social resources needed to combat high levels of crime will be stretched even thinner.
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In particular, Ms. Merkel ceded the Finance Ministry and control of the purse strings to the left-of-center party, which is likely to relax the strict fiscal discipline that prevailed under Wolfgang Schäuble.
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Wesfarmers' online push and drive to diversify comes at a time when shoppers in Australia have tightened their purse-strings in response to rising household debt, tepid wage growth and a steep property downturn.
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Treasury will then need to make its case to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the White House office that holds the purse strings and oversees Trump's efforts to streamline our bloated bureaucracy.
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Interest rates have been slashed in an effort to boost inflation, which has been low in part due to the German government's "unwillingness to loosen the purse strings" in an effort to encourage economic expansion.
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Mr Hammond argued that if MPs approved a withdrawal deal with the EU the economy would pick up and he would be able to loosen the fiscal purse-strings—what he calls his "deal dividend".
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Yoest will have the power to spread misinformation to the public and lawmakers, while Manning will have control of the purse strings for government funded health services that affected around 5.2 million people in 2009.
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But, in theory, if effectively mobilized, US ethnic and racial minorities could control the purse strings and have a decisive effect on whether the US film industry has a financially successful or a disastrous year.
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Other times, she says, they try to look at the situation in a more optimistic light, with a partnership framework: Today, one partner holds the purse strings, but one day, it will be more equal.
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World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Ertharin Cousin said she hoped Congress - which controls the government purse strings - would rebuff the cuts and maintain the United State's long-standing role as the agency's largest contributor.
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Cities now generate their own revenues, make their own deals with private firms and start their own businesses, though the central government keeps enough of a hold on the purse strings to ensure fiscal discipline.
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India's start-up dudes — largely male, young engineering graduates or dropouts —are being jolted out of their fantasy world as investors tighten their purse strings and demand a greater bang for every buck they spend.
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And it went looking for new financing at a time when venture capitalists have begun to tighten their purse strings amid concern that many of the start-ups that they have backed may not survive.
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With an average annual resident income of about 46,000 Singapore dollars, most Singaporeans regularly tighten their purse strings, this necessary financial prudence helped by a wide range of free and low-cost facilities and diversions.
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The president's budget is ceremonial in many regards: Congress actually controls the federal government's purse strings, and lawmakers are quick to rattle off tales of how both Republican and Democratic presidents never get their wishes.
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Governor Adrian Orr signaled recently for the government to loosen its purse strings, as the central bank held rates at a record low of 1% at its final policy meeting for the year last month.
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Consumer confidence slipped in July for the third month to hit the lowest since April 2016, data on Thursday showed, suggesting that households could tighten their purse strings even before the sales tax hike rolls in.
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But the severity of the Great Depression and the need to boost consumer demand gradually led him to loosen some of those ambitious and open up the nation's purse strings so to pump prime the markets.
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Middle income countries are increasingly seeing both forms of malnutrition, putting a heavy burden on their purse strings in years to come, experts told government representatives gathered in Rome to find ways to tackle the problem.
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On Schaeuble's watch, Germany has been one of the few countries in Europe to consistently run a budget surplus - so much so that the European Commission criticized Europe's largest economy for not loosening its purse strings.
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And now the world's biggest oil and gas companies are under growing pressure to loosen the purse strings to replenish reserves, halt output declines and take advantage of a crude price rally after years of austerity.
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Both drugs are in the final stages of enormous trials designed to demonstrate that they can lower the risk of heart attacks and deaths, which is expected to help open the insurer purse strings if successful.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's public finances deteriorated in June as rising inflation pushed up the government's debt bill, driving home the challenge for finance minister Philip Hammond who is under pressure to loosen the public purse strings.
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He had already promised to ease the purse strings on a tour of Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England - areas hard hit by an almost decade-long spending squeeze by his Conservative Party.
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So, once President Trump started campaigning on these policies about lowering taxes, about rolling back regulations, there was an anticipation that started to creep up and that started to force businesses to unleash the purse strings.
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The president cannot independently cut spending — that power is reserved for Congress, as they control the purse strings — but under the Impoundment Control Act of 28500, the president has the authority to propose rescissions to Congress.
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Mr. Gray said he worried that a Trump administration could set the city back because the federal government still controls its purse strings and could enact abortion restrictions, cut vital investment and relax gun control laws.
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That kind of threat really loosens the purse strings; If a fine could be in the tens of millions of dollars, paying a significant fraction of that for a service like Hatebase's is a good investment.
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The victor controls the party's purse strings, and the true prize: command over selecting a committee that will redraw the legislative map, a power that can make or break candidates and is a potent bargaining chip.
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Mr. Mattis and top aides met with the senior Republican and Democrat on the House and Senate Armed Services Committees, and their counterparts on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees that control the Pentagon's purse strings.
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While the wall may never be built, and while many undocumented immigrants will remain — a lot depends on Mr. Trump's wild, daily policy swings and congressional purse strings — his words are already having unmistakable economic consequences.
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"What I'm seeing is many of these clients are willing to loosen up the purse strings a little bit at first just to see if it's going to facilitate traveler buy-in," Ms. Van Luven said.
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Markets showed little reaction to Sunday's vote, although economists said PiS may have to loosen the purse strings in the coming months as it heads toward a parliamentary election in 2019 and a presidential vote in 2020.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A shrinking fiscal deficit ought to give British finance minister Philip Hammond leeway to loosen the purse-strings in his annual budget on Monday, but political gridlock over Brexit is likely to stay his hand.
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Last April, US District Judge William Orrick in California blocked key sections of Trump's executive order to starve sanctuary jurisdictions from federal money, saying the executive branch overstepped its bounds by grabbing purse strings reserved for Congress.
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Reichl doesn't need the unlimited purse strings of Condé Nast to have a good time, and neither do her readers: The air was filled with the soft melodic thrum of French, its cadence a kind of music.
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Despite a sustained drive to upgrade and modernise Russia's armed forces, President Vladimir Putin has had to tighten purse strings following a sharp decline in global oil prices and the need to prioritise some domestic spending programmes.
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Germany, which runs a budget surplus, has resisted pressure from European peers to spend more to help boost euro zone growth and last week the European Commission effectively urged Germany to loosen its purse strings next year.
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Despite a sustained drive to upgrade and modernize Russia's armed forces, President Vladimir Putin has had to tighten purse strings following a sharp decline in global oil prices and the need to prioritize some domestic spending programs.
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Frelinghuysen, whose committee controls the congressional purse strings, was facing the prospect of a tough fight for re-election in November in New Jersey, and his retirement could increase the likelihood that a Democrat captures his seat.
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Yes, money knows no boundaries, but some CEOs and venture capitalists do grumble about whether a country with a shoddy human rights record should be holding the purse strings in the American economy's most vibrant, innovative sector.
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For my project about the future of movies, the actress and director Elizabeth Banks was bullish about the new opportunities offered by streaming services, but she's noticed that the entire industry has been tightening its purse strings.
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While the Abu Dhabi-based carrier is invested in Jet, it has lost money in other airline ventures such as Alitalia and Air Berlin and may be wary of loosening the purse strings again, said another source.
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These partnerships must expand to ensure we meet needs across the continuum of care, and those holding the purse strings should recognize the value and ethicality to care for women wherever they are in their health journey.
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Both the League and 2923-Star promoted free-spending policies on the campaign trail, and concerns that they might loosen the domestic purse strings if they took office drove a sell-off of Italian assets on Monday.
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Private consumption has been a soft spot in the economy as slow wage growth prevents households from loosening their purse strings, in turn discouraging companies from hiking prices and keeping inflation far from the BOJ's 2 percent target.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump would almost certainly face a legal challenge if he carries out his threat to get funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall by declaring a national emergency and circumventing Congress's purse-strings power.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's signature campaign vow to erect a wall on the southern U.S. border with Mexico has been mired in cross-border bickering and opposition from Democratic lawmakers with power over the government's purse strings.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Executives at the world's biggest oil and gas companies are under growing pressure to loosen the purse strings to replenish reserves, halt output declines and take advantage of a crude price rally after years of austerity.
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Household sentiment slipped for the third month in July to hit the lowest since April 2016, a Cabinet Office survey showed last week, suggesting consumers could tighten their purse strings even before the sales tax hike rolls in.
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But after losing much ground in August local government elections, including key urban centers, some in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) want him to loosen the purse strings to woo back voters before a 2019 national election.
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That tightening of the purse strings was most pronounced with a 29.2 percent drop in spending by Britons, where a see-sawing sterling, weakened by the referendum to leave the European Union, made holidays in Greece more expensive.
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Secretaries Zinke and Perdue would need assistance from Congress, which controls the purse strings on farm bill conservation programs as well as the Land and Water Conservation Fund— another potentially crucial funding tool in the conservation of migrations.
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Outside of controlling the purse strings of the federal government, requiring congressional approval authorized force is one of the only ways that the legislative branch — and by extension, the American people — can have some influence over the process.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani proposed on Sunday a state budget of about $100 billion for next year, loosening the purse strings to support economic growth as Donald Trump's election threatens to put renewed pressure on Tehran.
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The result is that as online advertising networks become more highly centralized, the old model of a independently managed and free press is being replaced by one where giant technology companies control user data and the purse strings.
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Samuel Tombs, an economist with Pantheon Macroeconomics, said Hammond would probably want to keep some room for a loosening of the purse strings once Britain actually leaves the EU which will probably be shortly before the next election.
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Mark John, European Economics Editor LONDON (Reuters) - Prodded by worries about the worst global economic outlook in a decade and electorates still smarting from years of austerity, euro zone governments are starting to loosen their budgetary purse strings.
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Britain's economy is shrinking, the broadest survey of business confidence since last month's historic vote to quit the European Union showed on Friday, leading finance minister Philip Hammond to pledge a loosening of purse strings if the weakness endures.
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"Markets are literally screaming at the German authorities to loosen the fiscal purse strings although to date this has fallen on deaf years," said Mark Dowding, co-head of investment grade debt strategy at BlueBay Asset Management in London.
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Whichever issue brings a company the sharpest criticism from the public, the most attention from regulators or the most worry from its board, that's what will get the focus internally, including from executives who hold the budgetary purse strings.
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Uncertain global economic conditions may have led consumers to tighten their purse strings, but digital media could reverse that trend and give retailers a much needed boost, said the chief financial officer of a Hong Kong-based cosmetics chain.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Russian military spending fell by a fifth last year, its first decline in nearly two decades, with tighter purse-strings likely to affect Moscow's military activity ahead, a report by defense think-tank SIPRI showed on Wednesday.
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As the "1099 Generation" becomes increasingly dependent on side hustles—primarily due to the lack of more traditional, stable employment options enjoyed by our parents—we're also increasingly at risk of those holding the purse strings fucking us over.
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There are fears that among some farmers that once the EU hands over the purse strings it could eventually lead to reduced government support, as agriculture will have to compete with departments such as health and education for funds.
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The OECD said budgetary easing had taken over from central bank stimulus as the main motor of global growth with three-fourths of its member countries now estimated to be loosening purse-strings, led by massive U.S. tax cuts.
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Infibeam's IPO comes at a time when valuations for Indian tech startups are under stress, with venture capital investors tightening their purse strings in an industry that has mounted millions of dollars in losses in pursuit of market share.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump would almost certainly face a legal challenge if he makes good on his threat to get funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall by declaring a national emergency and circumventing Congress's purse-strings power.
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After years of tightening the purse strings in favor of restoring fiscal credibility, the bill reinforces public investment by 600 million euros to 1.35 billion euros - but for Portugal's left-wing parties, this is a drop in the water.
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After years of tightening the purse strings in favour of restoring fiscal credibility, the bill reinforces public investment by 600 million euros to 1.35 billion euros - but for Portugal's left-wing parties, this is a drop in the water.
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While the company has taken a hit due to muted tourist spending in the past several quarters, a sharply lower pound following the British vote to exit the European Union encouraged tourists in the country to loosen their purse strings.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sajid Javid became Britain's first ethnic minority finance minister on Wednesday, capping off an unlikely rise from a humble start on a street dubbed the country's worst to holding the purse strings for the world's fifth-biggest economy.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds are queuing up to finance the West's overhauls of crumbling roads, bridges and ports as public purse strings are loosened after a period of austerity, but they still face project delays and fierce competition for deals.
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Hammond wants to run a balanced budget by the middle of the next decade so that the debt burden will fall faster, but Prime Minister Theresa May's minority government is under pressure to loosen the purse-strings after years of austerity.
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SYDNEY, Jan 03 (Reuters) - Australian shoppers tightened their purse strings in November after three months of splurging, but retail sales were still running well ahead of the previous quarter and pointing to a much-needed pick up in consumer spending.
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The new measures come at a time when global investors are tightening their purse strings, after pumping in billions of dollars in the last 24 months, as dreams of huge online sales are clouded by soaring valuations and still-distant profits.
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What the Raptors have made clear over the last few days is that they're going to go with the former, tightening the purse strings a bit but making a few smart bets on Miles and their youth in the process.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy is shrinking, the broadest survey of business confidence since last month's historic vote to quit the European Union showed on Friday, leading finance minister Philip Hammond to pledge a loosening of purse strings if the weakness endures.
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Gunning's X.A.I. initiative, which kicked off this year, provides $75 million in funding to 12 new research programs; by the power of the purse strings, Gunning has refocused the energies of a significant part of the American A.I. research community.
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Television networks will draw hordes of advertisers to New York City this week for their annual bonanza of presentations and parties, a decades-old tradition known as the upfronts that is meant to dazzle marketers and loosen their purse strings.
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"In my experience, it is not wise for a cabinet secretary to bully the person who controls his purse strings," said David Hayes, the former deputy secretary of the interior during the Obama administration, who has worked closely with Ms. Murkowski.
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Expected to be submitted to parliament shortly, the Socialists' 2019 budget proposals aim to raise the public spending ceiling, easing the fiscal purse-strings after years of deficit-cutting that won Rajoy credit for a sharp turnaround in Spain's economy.
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In a further sweetener to households and companies, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is expected to unveil more tax cuts, with little sign of a tightening of the purse strings, when he presents his 2020 budget to parliament on Friday.
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Mark Papa, a pioneer in the U.S. shale oil revolution, is warning that forecasts for booming U.S. production growth will leave industry watchers disappointed in the coming years as drillers burn through their best wells and tighten their purse strings.
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In a further sweetener to households and companies, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is expected to unveil more tax cuts, with little sign of a tightening of the purse strings, when he presents his 2020 budget to parliament on Friday.
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Read: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez visited Nancy Pelosi's office — to join a protest Because of their power over the nation's purse strings, members of the powerful "A" committees cannot sit on more than one unless they get a special waiver from leadership.
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At the start of the first holiday shopping season since the election of Donald Trump as president on November 8, U.S. consumers loosened their purse strings and spent $2793 billion online between midnight and 5 pm ET on Thursday, according to Adobe.
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One popular post from May, on the bargain-hunting site My Purse Strings, details how the writer saved $1700 by downloading the Peloton app and outfitting a cheap spin bike, which can be had for as little as $200, with an iPad holder.
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For all intents and purposes, 20.1 is the end of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion, but it will go out with a whimper, not a bang, since state Medicaid programs will have already been tightening their purse strings over the past few years.
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The pressure to loosen the purse-strings will grow—especially after March 29th, when people will expect to see the Brexit "deal dividend" that Mr Hammond promises when Britain leaves the EU. In truth, the scope for increasing spending is very limited.
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While sterling registered its biggest daily fall in eight months, the slump appeared to be checked by expectations from some investors that the government may pursue a softer stance on Brexit and even loosen the purse strings to assuage an austerity-weary electorate.
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There are even advantages to whiskey dick and coke dick—when they lead to hours of extended sessions where all you have to do is allow an intoxicated client to keep ranting, and especially when inebriation also loosens the client's purse strings.
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Macron, who early in his presidency made a priority of pushing the French budget deficit below the EU-mandated 3 percent limit, hurting his popularity, said it was now time for Europe to loosen the purse strings to prepare for the future.
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As well as finding a deal that satisfies both an EU establishment keen to deter other members from trying leave, and the strained purse-strings of the British budget, May must also reach an amount her own political party is prepared to swallow.
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But households are likely to remain hesitant to loosen their purse strings in the near term, with a third report on Friday showing the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index dipped to 89.0 in April from a reading of 91.0 in March.
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During Ms. Bailey's tenure, the bulk of Bazaar's biggest photographers — Patrick Demarchelier, Mr. Teller, Mr. McDean, Inez van Lamsweerde, Mr. Sims, Peter Lindbergh, Mr. Klein — went to Condé Nast, Hearst's rival and Vogue's owner, which has famously always had looser purse strings.
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Having signaled a tough attitude and tightened purse strings toward the United Nations, President-elect Donald J. Trump spoke by phone on Wednesday with the organization's newly installed secretary general, António Guterres, who has hinted at his own plans for budget restraint.
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However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has resisted calls to draft a fiscal stimulus package for her country, and some officials said that even two quarters of contracting gross domestic product -- a recession -- might not be enough to make Berlin loosen its purse strings.
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Lawmakers are arguably an even more important constituency than the president for Mr. Guterres to win over; key congressional committee members control the purse strings, and can help him stave off the deep funding cuts the Trump administration is proposing for international organizations.
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And race remains a factor, if less overtly than in the past: During the 1960s, the chair of the House committee that controlled DC's purse strings responded to a budget from the city's first black mayor by sending a truck filled with watermelons.
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NUSA DUA, Indonesia/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Central bankers from the United States to Europe are coming under pressure from their governments to loosen their purse strings again as a decade of accelerating economic growth and booming markets fueled by cheap cash comes to an end.
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As several women involved told the Times, there's pressure to stay silent because so many of the investors and magnates holding the Valley's purse strings are men—and upsetting a powerful person could directly affect whether or not your venture or start up gets funding.
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"I think companies are going to be lean and mean and are going to keep the purse strings tight and only spend where absolutely necessary, because cash isn't coming into them," said Kim Forrest, senior equity research analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh.
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A host of other demands — from Italy and France for looser purse strings, from Scandinavian and Dutch leaders to beware of fading support for Europe in their countries — are tugging at Ms. Merkel as she and President François Hollande of France consult the Continent's leaders.
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An apparently puzzled Ms. Yellen pointed out that it is her staff that deals with Mr. Cordray, a longtime Republican target, before waving off how the new agency is funded as a matter for Congress, which holds the government's purse strings, not the Fed.
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The idea that a House speaker would labor under the threat of reprisals from a president, or that a president would bully the officer holding the purse strings of government, takes us past a line even Richard Nixon would have been reluctant to cross.
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He has already signaled he is likely to loosen the purse strings and adopt budget rules that are more flexible than those of his predecessor George Osborne, who last year missed his target to bring down debt as a share of GDP each year.
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With real average weekly wage gains dipping in February, rising bank card and subprime auto delinquencies rising, and banks once again tightening loan purse strings, there are a number of reasons to suspect GDP expectations for the coming quarters are likely to be revised lower.
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The Trump administration has already leveled direct threats to cut off federal subsidies to health insurers and to go after the drug industry, and Republicans hold the purse strings for the federal programs that cover many of the patients seen by the nation's doctors and hospitals.
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Without it, pushing through a reform agenda that was at odds with the ideological prejudices of most of his own party and which Mr Brown, as chancellor in control of the purse strings, was determined to undermine (for personal as much as political reasons) was uphill work.
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It means convincing the holders of city and state purse strings—the ACS budget is $2.7 billion for 333—to invest in experimental programs whose success won't be calculable for years, and whose failures will be splashed across the media, potentially costing government officials their jobs.
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"The conditions were worse but if we thought that if we just put our head down and build something from scratch the purse strings would open up because of the pent up demand for new things in innovation and creativity and disruption at large," he said.
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TEd Baker has had a series of setbacks in the past year, including several profit warnings and the CEO change that have added to its challenges in an industry facing fierce online competition and struggling with falling footfalls on Britain's high streets as shoppers tighten purse strings.
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"When both the House and the Senate have been Republican, the market was up 23.4 percent versus 7.4 percent under Democratically controlled Congresses, and since Congress controls the purse strings, you might conclude that it's more important to have control of Congress than of the presidency," said Stovall.
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Oil and gas companies the world over are tightening their purse strings to accommodate prices that have fallen by more than half since the start of the year as the virus shut industry and eroded demand, just as major producers Saudi Arabia and Russia pushed to ramp up output.
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"The Washington establishment still thinks that infrastructure can only be built correctly if they make all the decisions and control the purse strings, but one look at the crumbling bridges and roads across America shows that approach has failed," deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters said in a statement.
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That's why some Democrats are salivating about the possibility of a new way to get their hands on liberal purse strings, not by convincing the older generation but by encouraging this younger generation that is bringing their to-the-barricades attitude to their old-money families ahead of the November election.
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Having won a landslide victory in April's presidential election and a parliamentary one after that, he has to persuade Ukrainian voters and Westerners who hold the purse-strings that he is serious about ending both corruption and the war with Russia, which has claimed 13,000 lives and displaced 1.5m people.
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With Slaven Bilic's job under increasing scrutiny at this point – much like Bob Cratchit, to maintain the metaphor of A Christmas Carol – he must dare to dream that the Premier League loosens its purse strings, and yields up some points from the three tough games against Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool to come.
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Sheikh Ahmad's ability to control the purse strings is not just limited to Asia, though; in 2016, ANOC scrambled to provide $462,000 to its former vice president, Patrick Hickey, so he could pay bail and be repatriated to Ireland after he was arrested during the Rio Olympics on suspicion of ticket scalping.
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Rising tensions with its NATO ally, the United States, fears that the central bank could cut rates too early - it meets for the first time this year on Wednesday - and a government willing to loosen the purse strings in the run-up to municipal elections in March have seen the lira underperform its peers.
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The BRC report states that almost two-thirds (65 percent) of consumers expect food prices will have the biggest impact on their personal finances in the year ahead, outdoing energy bills (58 percent) and petrol prices (53 percent), suggesting the U.K. retail sector could continue to be squeezed by tighter purse strings in the months ahead.
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"He comes back in 2006 as a Serbian nationalist just enough to split the other nationalist votes while also banking on his reputation as moderate with the EU member states who hold the purse strings," said the former diplomat, who now runs a consulting company and asked to remain anonymous so as not to alienate potential clients.
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Yet the centerpiece of the president's plans, the border wall that helped define his campaign, will rise or fall in places like this — a waterway where many experts believe a physical barrier is unwise — and with people like Mr. Ryan, who control the purse strings on Capitol Hill and have not always echoed Mr. Trump's hard line.
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Budgets leave Detroit, Flint kids by wayside Attorneys will meet Tuesday to discuss two new class-action lawsuits filed by Flint residents that target the governor, the state Department of Environmental Quality and the former Flint emergency managers who took control of the city's purse strings after the financial emergency, among others, said Eric Hood, who is coordinating media for the plaintiffs.
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" That's also down to the growth of mobile payment services like Tencent's WeChat Pay and Alibaba's Alipay has made buying services easier than ever before but, beyond enabling parents to spend on shopping or educational services, Lee sees wider implications when looking at the rush of "largely middle-aged women (and also men) coming online in smaller cities with the family purse strings.
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Congress has the power to declare war, but the United States has only fought five declared wars -- and none since World War II. And Congress controls the "purse strings," but while a few progressives and libertarians might jump at the chance to cut funding for the troops, most congressmen do not want to be accused of "failing to support our troops" by not authorizing military funding.
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As a result, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire sat telling journalists in one part of the IMF headquarters why European countries with budget surpluses should spend more on investment while his Dutch counterpart Wopke Hoekstra, whose country is running just such a surplus, shortly afterwards explained to an audience in another room why he will be keeping a pretty tight grip on the purse strings.
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And despite the regulator's upbeat sentiments, the very large expense of laying full fiber to the home/premise — aka the fixed-line broadband installation that supports the highest broadband speeds, versus alternatives such as fiber to the cabinet (which BT has preferred) — means the telco will, in practice, still exert considerable control on Openreach's ability to ramp up broadband investment, given its continued hold on the purse strings.
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