When the federal government bailed out Detroit, the Michigan city's name was a synecdoche for the auto industry.
Poisoning, hunting and other factors lowered that to an estimated 3, 300 when the federal government listed it for endangered-species protection in 1973.
When the federal government spends in deficit, this logically creates private sector surpluses ( Why the Private Sector NEEDS the Government to Spend Money).
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When the federal government resorts to the courts to impose penalties for which it knows it cannot win congressional approval, it offends against democracy.
That is a moment when the federal government comes in handy.
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The company had a security contract for operations in Iraq under the U.S. State Department until May, when the federal government declined to renew the contract.
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When the federal government tried to speed up cuts in the feed-in tariff for solar power, several states put up a fight, forcing a partial retreat.
Trouble came to both men and to Alaska's political establishment when the federal government began investigating the rough and tumble way politics were practiced in the state.
Home prices only took a breather when the Federal government pumped extraordinary stimulus into the market, temporarily stabilizing what has quickly turned back into a free fall.
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Farming subsidies are continually under threat, but when the federal government started subsidising ethanol production and wind power, farmers realised that renewable energy offers new streams of revenue.
When the federal government got involved in roads, it learned a lesson from the railways, where rapacious private railroad-builders had regularly put their own interests ahead of the country's.
The idea of a federal risk assessment of the private sector is daunting, especially when the federal government has not been able to perform such an assessment of its own risks.
So while needle exchange advocates say fighting AIDS can be as cheap as 10 cents a needle, opponents charge that when the federal government buys the needles, it is endorsing drug use.
Bankruptcy is defined here and in my book as when the federal government can no longer borrow enough in the credit markets to finance its budget deficit, which is precisely what Greece has been suffering.
In general, all of the liberal arts colleges have done exactly what was expected to happen when the federal government intervenes and interferes with the free market (in this case the market of higher level education).
Moreover, U.S. firms may legitimately wonder why tax-dollars should be expended on supporting potential competitors (for example, in the Soviet space industry) when the federal government declines to help its own companies experiencing traumatic market shifts.
Or put another way: When the federal government tells a company how to make and sell a product, down to the exact wording on the label, can a jury in East Dipswitch decide the FDA was wrong?
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In both cases, this involved polygamy among Mormons, first when Lincoln banned bigamy in 1862 (the Morrill Anti-Bigamy Act) and again in 1890 when the federal government insisted Utah outlaw polygamy as a condition of becoming a state.
By the same token, a route that links Disney World, a convention centre, two airports and two of Florida's biggest cities sounds like a reasonable commercial proposition, especially when the federal government is paying most of the bill.
When the federal government shut down in 1995-1996 because of a budget standoff between Republicans and President Clinton, the GOP faced a huge backlash when Americans were unable to access basic government services, such as obtaining a passport or visiting the national zoo.
The transfer of power to Washington started with slum clearance during the Depression when the federal government began relocating the poor to more concentrated enclaves of public housing where they were denied ownership of the economy they once had built to support themselves however modestly.
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Following the ruling, the number of politically oriented groups seeking tax exempt status as social welfare organizations under section 501 (c) (4) of the federal tax code increased greatly at a time when the federal government, including the IRS, was dealing with austerity measures that reduced or stagnated personnel and resources.
After the ruling, the number of politically oriented groups seeking tax exempt status as social welfare organizations under section 501 (c) (4) of the federal tax code increased greatly at a time when the federal government including the IRS was dealing with austerity measures that reduced or stagnated personnel and resources.
And every day I wondered when is the federal government going to show up.
It is an easy thing to do on New Year's Day, when the markets are closed and the federal government is shut, so there is no-one to panic, and no-one to impose any savage cuts.
But if Hara got to experience the benefits of gay marriage, he also got to see its limitations when he applied to the federal government for survivor benefits such as health insurance, Social Security and Studds' pension.
The alliance should ensure for Troika a special place in the great array of investment projects and capital-markets business over which the Moscow city government has a say no small niche, when Moscow is second only to the federal government in terms of the assets it controls and the money it can mobilise.
Any doubts that the financial markets believe that the government stands behind the federal mortgage agencies were dispelled recently when a senior official told Congress that the government did not guarantee their debt.
But another fiscal deadline looms in late March, when the continuing resolution that has served as the federal government's working budget for the past year expires.
Some people will be tempted to say that the United States was a successful economy in the 1800s when tariffs financed a significant share of the federal government.
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