As Canada's provinces have discovered painfully, there is no such thing as a free federal hand-out.
And since the management of any bank that applies for a hand-out would probably have to resign, only the most desperate would want help.
Under fire from reporters to reveal more about this plan, top administration officials stressed that fiscal stimulus is about growth, not a hand-out for the lowest earning Americans.
Congress and President could act by the end of January to repeal an obviously constitutionally flawed law, and start over if they wanted to establish another constitutional hand-out for do-gooders.
Last month's attendance figures were poorer than expected and critics said if they did not pick up significantly NMEC would face financial difficulties and be forced to call on the government for a hand-out.
Despite going down to 10 men Celtic continued to put Hamilton under pressure, but Emilio Izaguirre blazed a shot wide of Cerny's right-hand post after breaking out from left-back.
But I like Apple's take even better, mostly because of that slide-out right-hand panel.
Bringing together all those concerned with encouraging hand-washing turned out to be a revelation.
Cooper is set to hand out-of-favour Tommy Rowe a start of the left wing, but says it will be a huge blow to lose Boyd.
Consider whether the PR staff for Hormel's bacon brands could better spend their time creating an online, regional and national event vehicle like the World Bacon Games--where they hand out medals made of delicious bacon--as opposed to pleading with food reporters to write glowing reviews about their products.
Pointing out that second-hand smoke can harm babies turns out to work.
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Goldman Sachs ( GS - news - people ), are expected to hand out record or near-record bonuses in 2009--even though the government had to step in last fall to rescue the U.S. financial industry.
On the other hand, simply bailing-out badly run companies would have been too generous.
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THERE'S A BAGEL renaissance on, with artisans turning out hand-rolled, heavily seeded, wood-oven-baked bagels all over the country.
Full disclosure: Iomega handed out hand-sanitizer with an Iomega logo at its booth.
The pair that started out hand-in-hand on an equal-opportunity journey through life end up sniping at each other, or scoring weary points.
Elebert glanced in a header from close range shortly after the half-hour mark that was just past Langfield's left-hand post before Aberdeen's Ricky Foster kept out an Alex Neil effort from the right-hand side of the penalty area.
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Now lenders of every stripecommercial institutions, bridge-loan outfits, venture leasing firmsare falling all over themselves to hand out cash to profit-challenged companies, provided they have venture capital backing.
On the art-comics side of things, there's even a backlash now: readers and critics dismissing genre-based comics out of hand on the grounds that they are genre-based.
Mr Kozlowski and his in-house team of merger specialists toss out old managers and hand-pick their replacements.
That famous red B looked as if it was made out of hand-dipped Maker's Mark wax.
Armagh player Kernan also publicly called on the GAA disciplinary authorities not to hand out an eight-week ban.
Former Chelsea striker Tore Andre Flo missed the ninth spot-kick of a tense shoot-out to hand the visitors victory.
If SUVs are bad and wind power is good, then we must levy a tax on gas-guzzlers and hand out tax credits for windmills.
Hand out a hundred-dollar bill to each Brazilian, and let them use this alternative for transactions that are too important for the homemade currency.
Whatever it is, it's going to be discussed at an event in Virginia later this month, though we're not exactly expecting any first-hand reports to come out of that.
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It is tempting, at the turn of the decade, to hand out such accolades - but as an impetus for the imagination, says Wagner, such events don't come with a sell-by date.
Or creating document-loaded USB micro-drives to hand out.
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