• By law, charitable foundations must conduct exclusively nonpartisan activities that promote the public welfare.

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  • In my opinion, a man in public life must think always of the public welfare.

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  • Medicaid has less broad-based appeal than Medicare, probably because it is more associated as a public welfare program.

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  • But he was immediately picked up by incoming Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who nominated Alexander as secretary of Public Welfare.

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  • Liberal Democrat MP Evan Harris suggested religious organisations carrying out public welfare functions should be gradually replaced with "secular-governed" agencies.

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  • The voluntary provision of charity is economically an excellent thing, since it reduces the need for public welfare organisations that usually cost more to run.

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  • These include moving to beef up foreign investment, improving public welfare with cash hand-outs for civil servants and the poor, as well as pushing his 1Malaysia programme prioritising national unity.

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  • "We're looking at implications for public welfare, " he said.

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  • The various Arab laws and regulations have generally stipulated, just as in the Western system, that attorneys are agents of the judges, and that their purpose is to serve justice and the public welfare.

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  • The speeches dealt only with the public welfare.

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  • He referred to a key point in the July report in which he said Spanier, Schultz and Curley drew up a plan that called for reporting Sandusky to the state Department of Public Welfare in 2001.

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  • The gases, the agency says, contribute to air pollution and may endanger public health or welfare.

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  • Without reforming its laws and public institutions, welfare schemes with the best intentions run the risk of floundering.

    BBC: India food law: The hungry republic

  • To be clear, SB 2687 does not restrict debate on food policy as it relates to public health and welfare.

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  • Ms Banerjee's political approach is to dish out public jobs and welfare and protect small farmers, and to duck reforms that might lure investors to the state.

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  • The law mandates that the EPA shall regulate any pollutant from motor vehicles or power plants that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.

    NPR: Supreme Court Hears Global Warming Arguments

  • Speaking on Wednesday, Conservative chairman Grant Shapps said the government had taken "difficult and responsible decisions" on public spending and welfare and contrasted this with other parties offering "glib and simple" solutions.

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  • The authors correctly point out that it is difficult to blame declining trade unionism and a diminished public appetite for welfare on the pressures, real or imagined, of globalisation: America is, after all, far less globalised (in terms of the share of its economy accounted for by trade) than many European economies with broader state welfare.

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  • What we've seen, as I've been pushing our agencies and administration to take a hard look at this, is exactly what Mark just said, that in any area there's a whole bunch of underbrush that can be cleared out and made much more efficient, while still achieving the objectives of public health, welfare, environmental, and so forth.

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  • And he has ruled out cuts in spending on health, welfare or public-sector pay.

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  • But unless substantial savings are made in welfare, public services will pay a disproportionate penalty.

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  • China's local authorities are barred from borrowing directly and use such vehicles, backed by state banks, to fund welfare and public-works projects.

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  • Cameron's popularity has taken a beating as the government sticks to a strict policy of austerity to cut Britain's debts, slashing public sector jobs and welfare payments.

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  • As well as economic changes, political change was also inevitable with Europe needing reform of labour markets, pensions, welfare, public services the role of the state, he said.

    BBC: Tony Blair: UK may face 'interesting choice' over euro

  • In California during the 1990s, Latinos read the anti-immigrant rhetoric of Pete Wilson, a Republican governor, as racist and were outraged when voters passed a ballot measure (later ruled unconstitutional) to bar undocumented immigrants from non-emergency public health care, welfare and education.

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  • Give people access to the facts that affect their welfare, and public servants may think twice about breaking their trust.

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  • "Zoo officials encourage lawmakers to pass a bill quickly to ensure public safety and protect the welfare of animals, " the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium said in a news release.

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  • "The report will help to shape this government's work to build an immigration system which works in the national interest - supporting the UK economy by continuing to attract the brightest and the best global talent at the same time as protecting our public services and ensuring our welfare system is not open to abuse, " he said.

    BBC: Romanian and Bulgarian immigrant impact 'modest'

  • These include improving public transport, establishing a national energy agency, creating a publicly-owned Bank of Wales, devolving the welfare system and ensuring more public-sector contracts go to local businesses.

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  • Westminster talk of welfare reform chimes with public concern that economic inactivity is linked to social ills.

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