If inflation is lower, then the growth in these budget line items is slower.

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So I think budget line items and names of things scale easily, but principles scale hard.

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Granted, these are not budget line items that are easily swapped in for each other, but a tie-in to obesity and diabetes may just make tackling air pollution more economically viable.

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Creating a content marketing budget line item could save you a substantial amount of money on other line items that have eaten up your budget in the past.

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Each drove the other crazy and, outside of expenses necessary for survival, they couldn't agree on any other line items in their budget.

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Rep. Jim Cooper, a Tennessee Democrat, said he appreciated Obama's promise to include disaster spending and the war in the new budget, instead of moving the items "off budget" to make the bottom line look better.

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The budget-making process will be centralised, and items scrutinised line by line.

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