| How did Spain manage to waste one of the biggest financial windfalls in human history? |
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| Bush's tax package, just passed by the US Congress, will deliver massive windfalls to the rich. |
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| We filled the tub with ripe fruit, and tonight it will join our windfalls in an apple and blackberry crumble. |
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| We ate fruit from the trees or windfalls without washing them and ate carrots pulled from the ground. |
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| This looked and sounded like a Chancellor who was holding on to the Treasury windfalls like a miser hoarding his coins. |
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| The apple tree in the garden has started shedding windfalls from its lower branches and there's a good pie's worth to collect most mornings. |
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| However, Keane said property developers were unlikely to enjoy the same financial windfalls in future. |
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| Pay equity is neither a bonus to be distributed during economic booms nor a ploy that results in undeserved windfalls. |
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| It should establish, in advance, the contingent allocations among tax cuts, spending increases and debt reduction of any unexpected windfalls. |
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| It favours old growth boreal forests with a dense undercover of thickets and windfalls. |
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| Companies like EnCana in Alberta got millions of dollars in windfalls thanks to the tax cuts. |
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| The use of revenue windfalls to raise government expenditures or to lower tax rates risks turning into a serious constraint in the coming years. |
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| Why should the banks and the oil and gas companies continue to get record windfalls at the expense of working Canadians? |
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| He balanced the budget and channelled oil windfalls into a rainy-day fund, which helped Russia get through the 2008 financial crisis. |
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| Silverstein has been flimflamming everyone with visions of multibillion-dollar windfalls. |
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| Finally, it is essential that we slow down the logging of standing wood, in order to give priority to the purchase of windfalls. |
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| Many people have gathered substantial nest eggs from building-society windfalls, privatisations and by making the most of tax breaks available under Tessas, Peps and Isas. |
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| Highfield hopes there may be windfalls from selling company property, and that he may be able to pull off a merger with a rival. |
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| But Duffin strongly disputes this, saying that just because Scottish Life is for tax reasons barred from handing out large windfalls, it doesn't mean it is being ungenerous. |
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| By now the scent of rotting windfalls were heavy on the air, and the apples were taken from the trees, turned into jam, or stored among layers of straw for use later on. |
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| We walked round the gardens looking at the pears and spotted a sign that said you were allowed to eat the windfalls but not to pick the pears off the trees. |
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| In fact, many Senators themselves are likely to reap enormous windfalls. |
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| Blinded by the glittering of gold, a multitude of people are sucked into the maelstrom of seeking windfalls by whatever means within reach, legal or illegal. |
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| The different composition of the fiscal adjustment compared to plans suggests that in some cases tax windfalls, which may be of a temporary nature, were partly used to finance increases in government expenditure. |
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| The focus should be on how to manage efficiently oil windfalls without jeopardizing shortterm macroeconomic stability, as there is likely to be pressure on the real exchange rate to appreciate. |
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| From their daily work of leaping from log to log, prying and pulling to keep the logs moving and to prevent jams at bends in the river, on sandbars, rocky narrows, windfalls, and deadheads, the sport of birling developed. |
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| As growth abates, a reversal in the tax content of GDP would strain the budgetary situation of Member States, which have used revenue windfalls to cover expenditure slippages and plan on further expenditure growth. |
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| In randomly selected poor households in 63 villages that have received the windfalls, they say, the number of children going without food for a day has fallen by over a third and livestock holdings have risen by half. |
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| A whole series of things that could have been addressed are now gone, and the companies now have record profits and record tax cuts from the government which are windfalls they have enjoyed. |
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| So sectors like the hydro-electric sector make windfalls. |
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| However, this budgetary improvement was largely the result of strong output growth and revenue windfalls and was only in small part due to effective fiscal consolidation measures. |
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| These tax cuts are going to give the oil and gas sector record windfalls. |
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| During the past economic good times Bulgaria has achieved consistently high fiscal surpluses and accumulated large fiscal reserves, reflecting buoyant economic growth and considerable revenue windfalls. |
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| This better-than-expected outturn was owed to substantial revenue windfalls which occurred despite the corporate tax reform and a cut in social contribution rates. |
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| These countries are, at the same time, challenged to manage the oil windfalls for the benefit of the whole population, as well as future generations, and cushion their economies against any macro-economic distortions. |
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| These budgetary developments were mainly the result of strong output growth and revenue windfalls and, only to a small extent, effective fiscal consolidation. |
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| On the other hand, fiscal incentives are more likely to lead to unintended windfalls by rewarding investment that would have taken place without the incentive. |
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| Yet, after the vote by members of Standard Life last week not to demutualise, the trend towards windfalls may be waning. |
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| Dotcoms have also become wiser, investing their capital windfalls in Old Economy talent. |
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| They couldn't reach the branches, so they ate the windfalls. |
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| Although demutualising can lead to large one-off windfalls for policyholders and members, in the long run, staying as a mutual pays off, TRD said. |
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