After the trust fund is credited for all of its own receipts, exactly as in current law, the Treasury will be left with the unified budget surplus.

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The quick and easy fund-raising process can be credited to NEA's longstanding relationships with more than 170 investors--the nation's largest pensions, foundations and endowments, and wealthy individuals--all of whom enjoyed triple-digit returns from 1996 to 1999.

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Alfred Winslow Jones is widely credited with founding the first hedge fund, in 1949.

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That same amount will be credited to the Social Security Trust Fund, in the form of Treasury securities.

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Some background: When the transportation act, known as TEA-21, was enacted in 1998, it tied spending levels to revenue collected by the government from highway user fees (various taxes on fuels, tires and so on) and credited to the highway account of the Highway Trust Fund.

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The attorney general credited the SEC with a good response to the mutual fund trading scandal.

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If you hold the iShares MSCI Brazil ( EWZ) exchange traded fund, much of its losses over the last year can be credited to Petrobras.

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" On Thursday, a spokesman for the International Monetary Fund, who noted the IMF hasn't been asked to assist Spain, credited Mr. Rajoy with taking "difficult steps, but we believe steps in the right direction.

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