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The dominance of the handset subsidy model and 12-month upgrade cycles in Western Europe combined with the introduction of a number of highly publicized, multimedia-oriented high-end handsets to drive demand in a mature market that is witnessing saturation of subscriber growth.

Andrew Brown

I suspect that there will be some mix of taxpayer subsidy and increase in premiums that attempts to partially recoup the losses.

Douglas Elliott

You've heard location, location, location? Well, affordable housing is subsidy, subsidy, subsidy.

Jamie Ross

Rather than pull the rug out arbitrarily, we could create a sunset that might be a year away, when the subsidy disappears.

Rep. Richard Woodbury

There is a common desire from the U.S., Brazil and Argentina to focus their concern on the ending of the subsidy problem that jeopardizes trade negotiations.

Marco Aurelio Garcia

The subsidies encourage people to get insurance at work, stifling the individual non-group market, and they encourage employers to provide overly generous insurance since the cost is subsidized. What's more, the subsidy is upside down - aiding mostly the high-income families that would probably purchase insurance under any scenario, and providing little aid to those of modest means.

Leonard Burman

In the year of our lord 1376 a parliament was held at London by command of the king, which began about the octave of St. George and lasted almost continuously for nine weeks. There the king urgently demanded a subsidy from the common people.

Thomas Walsingham

What we would look for is a gradual phasing out of the fuel subsidy and a more effective and coordinated policy response from the government and monetary authorities as and when shocks arise. Shocks such as high oil prices, a classic case of external shock, caught the government by surprise.

Agost Benard

We're not asking for any public subsidy of any kind. But the height of the new buildings is what provides the subsidy.

David Frank

There do have to be end dates, and it is actually helpful to folks to move on in their recovery process. ... FEMA is not putting anyone out [of a hotel]. FEMA is simply ending the subsidy.

Libby Turner

Choice can be baffling when it's hard to tell the differences between the different plans. I think for people who don't have coverage, who are very low income, this is an important supplement to their Medicare coverage. But people above the low-income subsidy really have to look at the plans closely.

Diane Rowland

Obviously if there was a commuter tax that would be great ... a federal subsidy would be even better.

Natwar Gandhi

It doesn't scare us. While there may be a subsidy needed to jump-start it, the new owner will need to help build a stadium, no doubt about it.

Lewis Wolff

The Quebec program heavily subsidizes the cost of child-care for middle and high-income families. Most [provincial] governments in Canada already subsidize child-care for poorer women but they lose the subsidy once their income rises above the poverty level.

Kevin Mulligan

With the safeguards we have proposed, ... subsidiaries and affiliates are absolutely identical with respect to the ability of a bank to transfer any subsidy that may exist in the bank.

Robert Rubin

The idea is to establish a program that doesn't provide a subsidy for those who don't need to be subsidized.

Bob Kerrey

We will require to export more onion to protect the farmers in the wake of high production and transport subsidy will go a big way in serving this purpose.

Alok Ranjan

BellSouth is opposed to government competing with private enterprise and using any form of subsidy to ensure the success of their business plan.

Bill Oliver

Countries are still having a hard time swallowing that we want to add a whole new kind of subsidy to the mix here, by putting counter cyclical payments in the blue box.

Jim Grueff

Chinese pharmaceutical companies are seeing more anti-dumping or anti-subsidy cases. The conflicts are spreading to some major exports.

Cui Bin

If the government spends money in the regions of the UK it is called subsidy. But if it pours it down the gullet of the cities and counties in south-east England it is called essential support of the infrastructure.

John Forsyth

I don't know of any transit system in the U.S. that does not have some form of subsidy. The amount, I don't know yet.

John Duffy

Over 45 percent of Oregonians will qualify for some level of subsidy.

Jerry Cohen

It's a sweet, sweet deal for the oil sands. That's the subsidy we think is really unnecessary.

Amy Taylor

The numbers are looking better, and we still need to really promote that, because we've got to get those numbers up even higher than they are right now to maintain our Essential Air Service subsidy to the airline.

Larry Peterson

Launch aid is a prohibited, market-distorting subsidy that is unique to Airbus. (It) is above and beyond the other forms of government support Airbus already receives -- tax relief, government-sponsored R&D and government-paid infrastructure projects.

Boeing Co

We're concerned that even with the fee subsidy, the first home ownership part and the $1000 start up a lot of people are going to look at this and feel its too hard.

Peter Conway

Five years ago, $10,000 was enough for a down payment. Now, you may see that figure in the $30,000 range. We are seeing a decrease in clients because of the increase of home prices and the increase in the subsidy that we provide.

Howie Carroll

I could go on for hours about how outrageous this subsidy decision is. What we have here is a Nafta panel that simply decided to flout its obligation to enforce U.S. trade laws.

Harry Clark

The mechanism is still the same in 2006 but in 2007 we will replace (cash subsidy) with a conditional subsidy and we will allocate some Rp4 trillion.

Paskah Suzetta

Rather than focus resources on the state's most pressing needs or helping parents of low-income families who need the most help sending their kids to preschool, this flawed measure creates a subsidy for rich and middle-income families that already send their kids to preschool.

Larry Mccarthy