| A second was to order the IOUs to divest themselves of most of their thermal generating assets. |
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| The Conservatives wrote political IOUs on DND's account which they cannot cash. |
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| On top of the table is a reasonably substantial amount of cash in notes, coins and IOUs, and beside it a manky old duffel bag destined to carry home someone's winnings. |
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| Every time the OBR crunches its numbers the peak rises and the happy horizon at which the government's pile of IOUs starts to shrink recedes. |
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| If we want to talk about the Prime Minister standing behind his IOUs, then we want to talk to Premier Danny Williams. |
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| Money market securities are essentially IOUs issued by governments, financial institutions, and large corporations. |
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| Promissory notes differ from IOUs in that they contain a specific promise to pay, rather than simply acknowledgment of a debt. |
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| The government has also been paying the peasants for their produce in IOUs since 1991, and it has often been impossible for the farmers to collect their money. |
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| It is as if two farmers were to compete to buy the same storehouse of grain, by offering ever bigger IOUs. Deflating this credit bubble is the trickiest task China now faces. |
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| A technical default, intensifying the squeeze on Greek banks, might lead to the Greek government paying pensions in IOUs and wages in cheques drawn on Greek banks that lack funds. |
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| Effectively it was one of the largest IOUs in Canadian history. |
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| As with Economy, we are pushing off nonredeemable IOUs onto the future. |
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