The PBGC is effectively propping up an institution that is becoming increasingly anachronistic: defined benefit pensions.
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More important is the role that Japanese banks are playing in propping up the bond market.
Since the onset of the housing crisis, companies have been propping up earnings by slashing costs.
In fact, China has already been providing unofficial, informal support by propping up the Euro.
In 1990 growth remained relatively brisk in emerging economies, propping up exports from the rich world.
Both leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
The new leaders face the daunting task of propping up Somalia's first effective central government since 1991.
And the Conservative strategy of continually propping up the SNP in Holyrood remains to me simply staggering.
Propping up growth are surging ad markets in China, India, Indonesia, South America, and even Russia.
Instead, it can have the effect of actually propping up unpalatable regimes, rather than increasing pressure for their reform.
Propping up the failures of the past prevents the successes of the future.
Mr. Trichet had been propping up Ireland's banks for months with emergency loans.
Growing demand and limited inventory is propping up another key aspect of the housing market as well: builder confidence.
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Their point: whatever money we save from lower oil prices, we should probably spend propping up our Arab oil friends.
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In our increasingly globalized economy, this is a recipe for propping up old industries and discouraging and crippling new ones.
Whereas one-third of Catalans are convinced separatists, many others are simply enraged by their tax money propping up poorer regions.
For the first camp, the developing countries were vital in propping up the economy during the dark days of 2009.
When a splint is created using PCL, it becomes a sort of biological placeholder, propping up structures while the body heals around it.
Given the cost of propping up the koruna as the government wobbled into place, joining the common currency soon seems wise.
And the most sensitive question will be asked by the people across Europe - why again do banks need propping up?
While Western countries have criticized Russia for its arms trade with Syria, Russia has insisted it is not propping up al-Assad's regime.
Once these begin to kick in, Chan expects fundamentals, as measured by economic data, to begin beating expectations, propping up the markets.
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Most of Guinea-Bissau's people are said to support the rebels, so the Senegalese are seen as occupiers propping up an unliked regime.
Yet propping up a tired Labour government they regard as indifferent to civil liberties and the environment would be scarcely more palatable.
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With most governments unable, or unwilling, to offer more fiscal stimulus, central banks are left solely responsible for propping up the flagging recovery.
The government claimed that analysts were propping up their earnings forecasts to satisfy their corporate investment banking clients and to attract new ones.
In the past few years, argues Mr Verleger, they have been propping up the oil price by keeping inventories down in consuming economies.
That is critical for the ECB, because it means the liquidity has "only" been propping up the financial system in countries like Greece.
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