Even though Wall Street created this financial debacle, the firms have been forcing the brokers they employ to agree to dramatic reductions of paid-out compensation from generally 38%- 42% to 20%-25% to balance their books.
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While they will point out that many lower-paid workers will be taken out of tax - a measure which would have been unlikely unless they had gone into coalition - Lib Dem activists will currently be calculating if their party has got enough in return for agreeing to much steeper spending cuts overall than they were suggesting before election day.
He also hailed moves to take millions of low-paid workers out of income tax, freeze council tax bills and deliver the largest-ever increase in the state pension.
Some investors infamously did make money from betting against American subprime mortgages, but their real achievement was to find a way of doing so, by buying up credit-default swaps that paid out when mortgage-backed securities soured.
When the dividend-payout ratio--the percentage of earnings paid out as dividends--climbed above 50% in the late 1950s, the subsequent ten-year earnings growth was 2% to 4% a year.
Another advantage is that reform could sweep a lot of low-paid people out of income tax altogether.
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"The Company paid out-of-court settlements approved by me, " Mr. Murdoch said in a July 7 email to staff.
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In my case, I paid out-of-pocket for the Calcium-score test because my cardiologist strongly recommended it but my insurance deemed it unjustified.
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"Just in the last year, I've seen prices paid for tricked-out bachelor pads in the Hollywood Hills go up by 20%, " says Josh Altman, a luxury broker based in Los Angeles.
Campaigners like Alison Garnham argue that the public attitudes have been influenced by tabloid caricatures of benefit scroungers when, in fact, the amount paid to out-of-work people had gone down, in real terms, over the past 40 years.
Consider: the 10-year Treasury pays about 1.9%, less than half what it paid five years ago. 100-Minus-Your-Age applied when the benchmark T-bill paid out 9% or 10%, like it did in the 1980s.
The 100-Minus-Your-Age maxim applied when the 10-year T-bill paid out 9% or 10%, like it did in the 1980s.
He reportedly paid a multimillion-dollar out-of-court settlement to the boy's family.
Strip away all of the side projects, and the best-paid scripted actor (Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen) still managed to out-earn the best-paid scripted actress (CSI's Marg Helgenberger) three-to-one when back-end profits were factored in.
Critics say this is nonsense - and they paid out to avoid international embarrassment.
The Obama administration recently proposed closing a tax break on dividends paid out of employee-ownership plans a move attacked by the ESOP Association.
But others defended both the Demand model, which employs a vast network of low-paid freelancers to crank out simple reference articles, and the content itself.
Many others are the work of so-called content farms, which enlist armies of low-paid writers to crank out articles on the cheap and skim profits selling equally inexpensive ads.
The problem is that the administration's ability to get the extra funds needed for these schemes has been significantly injured by the outrage among voters and Congress over bonuses paid to recipients of bail-out money.
Luis Urzua - the shift leader and last man out of the mine - paid an emotional tribute to all those involved in the rescue.
The hospital has apologised to the family and paid them a five figure out-of-court settlement.
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Every dollar my grandfather paid in taxes out of after-tax wages was a dollar that could never work for him again.
When announcing its proposals the department said it had to strike a balance between what was paid out and the long-term funding of that level of benefits.
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The Whitby Gazette was one of only 13 out of 373 paid-for-weekly titles across the UK to record year-on-year increases in circulation in the second half of 2012, according to the latest ABC figures.
The volunteers are expected to carry out the full duties of the paid wardens - driving the tractor, mowing the grass, looking after the island's sheep, carrying out DIY and maintenance work on Flat Holm's buildings, and leading tours of visitors.
Of course the so called "automatic stabilisers" - spending which rises in a recession as benefits are paid to those out of work and tax receipts fall as companies make lower profits - must be allowed to operate.
And improvements to the tower blocks are paid for out of a special ten-year fund.
Take a look at the table on page 129 of high-paid execs whose proxies are already out.
Take a look at the table on page 77 of high-paid execs whose proxies are already out.
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