But firms and banks have found debts too high to divert funds to capital spending.

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It relies in part on the story of Mary Brown, an auto-repair-shop owner who argued in court filings she would have had to divert funds from her business to comply with the law's requirement that, beginning in 2014, most Americans obtain coverage or pay a penalty.

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Perhaps for the first time an Indian company (Airtel) has chosen to divert sponsorship funds from cricket to motorsport.

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He laments that it was very bad that Google had to divert such funds into influencing the FTC's actions.

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Relatively inexpensive access to large sums of general purpose cash (i.e. no underlying trade transactions or projects making it easier to divert these funds for potentially nefarious purposes).

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The Ninth Circuit decision denying VSP tax-exempt status threatens to "divert to the federal treasury funds from the Sight for Students program, " depriving the poor kids and jeopardizing their eye care, the charities argue in a friend-of-the-court brief.

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There is strong evidence that the Beeb - which has no mandate from anyone in the government or from the licence payer to divert licence fee funds to on-line publishing - is recruiting on the cheap and further dumbing down its previous rigorous standards.

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As overseas investors divert funds from overbought Wall Street to Hong Kong, Wharf's stock price has been inching up.

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This was the guy, remember, who in 2005 offered an amendment to remove funds from a little thing he called the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" and to divert them to a vital bridge destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

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