Survey respondents noted the economy was cooling off, with municipal government activity lagging, discretionary spending per costumer falling, and input costs rising.
The second key ability that is more regularly called upon in government activity is striving to reconcile the conflicting needs and wants of multiple stakeholders.
At least in the short term, Mr Gautier says, government activity in the Arctic has more to do with transport routes than with under-sea riches.
As in Texas, metro areas that have good growth prospects through the recovery tend to be hubs for government activity, energy, logistics and, in some cases, technology growth.
Administrations change but government activity always has consequences.
This week the Supreme Court rejected that equivalence, ruling that an Arizona tax credit differed enough from a comparable direct spending program to deny taxpayers the right to sue on the basis that the credit represented an unconstitutional government activity.
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Like every other defense program -- and, for that matter, any other government activity -- responsible officials and their contractors must be held to the highest standards of integrity and technical performance when it comes to what is, arguably, one of the Nation's most important initiatives: the effort to defend the American people against ballistic missile attack.
If his papers become public just because the government regulates the activity, how does one limit the intrusiveness of government investigators into our private behavior?
Since 2000, the library has been collecting pages from websites that document government information and activity.
Yet as this chart reveals, without government-sponsored activity, we were dead-on.
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While critics of government intervention in the private sector generally express concerns about excessive government control of private sector activity, advocates of this approach realize that in some cases the government must support ventures while being careful not to control them.
The corporate sustainability and social responsibility movement is largely an alternative to government regulation of business activity.
Imagine, a company stirring up all that economic activity without government stimulus money.
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Oh happy day for the neo Keynesian and central planner as it has again befallen to government consumption to support activity.
While specific exercise advice couldn't be drawn from this study, McClain refers to the government's physical activity guidelines that suggest getting at least five hours of moderate exercise or two-and-a-half hours of intensive exercise each week.
The higher utilization could be a result of a resurgence in deepwater activity in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, where the government recently sold leases for new exploration activity.
Security must be improved, economic activity encouraged, government strengthened and insurgents offered inducements to defect.
But the Syrian government has access to all activity through that server "absolutely without any doubt, " Thakur said.
Their operations, dependent on donor dollars, exist as evidence for foundations, philanthropists and government agencies as proof of activity.
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The true cost of the government assistance for a particular activity (such as subsidizing those paying college tuition) is not obvious.
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Banks are required to report suspicious activity to the government and to put in place rules meant to make money laundering impossible for customers.
Last year, in a bid to generate domestic capital for business activity, the government issued interest-bearing recapitalization bonds to prime the banking system with funds.
This means that no U.S. citizen, business or agency of government may engage in any activity which directly or indirectly supports or sustains a relationship with these organizations.
Such services meet needs of community in general and these do not take into account individual households (expenditures on defence, government, roads, scientific activity financed from the State budget and extra-budget funds, communal services and services of institutions serving agriculture).
It is extremely hard for UK citizens to get into orbit because the government does not fund manned space activity.
The vast majority of annual losses that result from criminal activity in business and government entities are not caused by shoplifters or burglars in the United States.
In a 1948 case dealing with the World War II era Emergency Price Control Act, the Supreme Court held that the government can require individuals engaged regulated activity to maintain and produce certain types of records.
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Also, the U.S. government did not keep track of mining activity at the time.
What it would do is shift economic activity from the less productive government sector to the more productive private sector, thereby stimulating aggregate output and growth.
The voluntary economic activity of growing crops triggered government regulation.
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