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  • The war against wolves is kept at white heat by Provincial and Federal Governments, almost all of which offer wolf bounties ranging from ten dollars to thirty dollars per wolf; and in times when the value of foxes and other furs is depressed, this bounty becomes in effect a subsidy paid to trappers and traders alike.†   (source)
  • One of their early acts, after coming into power, was to stop subsidies for African school feeding.†   (source)
  • She subsidizes a number of young artists.
    subsidizes = supports by providing money
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • It offered as much as $385 million in subsidies the following year.†   (source)
  • Tenants paid 30 percent of their income in rent, and the rest was made up by federal rent subsidies.†   (source)
  • Thanks to those government subsidies.†   (source)
  • Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water -- all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap.†   (source)
  • The industry front group formed to defend these government subsidies is called the "Committee for Employment Opportunities?'†   (source)
  • Attempts to end these federal subsidies have been strenuously opposed by the National Council of Chain Restaurants and its allies in Congress.†   (source)
  • "Our job is not to provide subsidies to corporations that are importing low-cost labor," said a county official.†   (source)
  • They have successfully pitted one economically depressed region against another, using the threat of plant closures and the promise of future investment to obtain lucrative government subsidies.†   (source)
  • Its chief lobbyist, Bill Signer, told the Houston Chronicle there was nothing wrong with the use of federal subsidies to create low-paying, low-skilled, short-term jobs for the poor.†   (source)
  • While publicly espousing support for the free market, the fast food chains have quietly pursued and greatly benefited from a wide variety of government subsidies.†   (source)
  • No other region of the United States has been so dependent on government subsidies for so long, from the nineteenth-century construction of its railroads to the twentieth-century financing of its military bases and dams.†   (source)
  • From its inception, the company that started the revolution in meatpacking — by crushing labor unions and championing the ruthless efficiency of the market — has made ample use of government subsidies.†   (source)
  • While quietly spending enormous sums on research and technology to eliminate employee training, the fast food chains have accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in government subsidies for "training" their workers.†   (source)
  • But on the balance sheets of Taggart Transcontinental, the checks of Jim's subsidies for empty trains bore larger figures than the profit brought by the best freight train of the busiest industrial division.†   (source)
  • Other proposals have been self-serving and unlikely to have much impact, like subsidies and tax cuts for manufacturers (the benefits of which go disproportionately to the owners of factories, not to the workers, who still must compete with legions of ever-cheaper robots).†   (source)
  • The existing antipoverty program, built around food subsidies, was inefficient and served the needs mostly of food companies.†   (source)
  • "Arizona is currently giving away millions of your tax dollars as subsidies to illegals," Martin wrote in a ballot argument sent to voters.†   (source)
  • Then the boys in Washington granted subsidies to the oil operators, but not all of the oil operators had friends in Washington, and there followed a situation which no one cared to examine too closely or to discuss.†   (source)
  • Afterward, Levy showed President Ernesto Zedillo how successful the experiment had been, and Zedillo bravely agreed to phase out food subsidies and launch the new program nationwide.†   (source)
  • Do not seek the favor of those who enslaved you, do not beg for alms from those who have robbed you, be it subsidies, loans or jobs, do not join their team to recoup what they've taken by helping them rob your neighbors.†   (source)
  • Listed as profit, on the glossy pages of his report to the stockholders, was the money he had not earned-the subsidies for empty trains; and the money he did not own-the sums that should have gone to pay the interest and the retirement of Taggart bonds, the debt which, by the will of Wesley Mouch, he had been permitted not to pay.†   (source)
  • You deserved every penny of that stock, and in the days of your father I would have refunded every penny of your profit-but under your brother's management, Taggart Transcontinental has taken its share of the looting, it has made profits by force, by means of government favors, subsidies, moratoriums, directives.†   (source)
  • And it was not the withdrawal of the subsidy; that meant nothing.†   (source)
  • We need a national subsidy for literature.†   (source)
  • The family only gets by because of the paycheck George's wife, Peggy, brings home from her job -- and because of a subsidy check from the U.S. government.†   (source)
  • To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker's bloodstream, no nitrogen runoff seeped into the watershed, no soils were poisoned, no antibiotics were wasted, no government subsidy checks were written.†   (source)
  • These federal subsidy programs were created to reward American companies that gave job training to the poor.†   (source)
  • One study has suggested that after the revision of the state's tax code every new job that ConAgra and IBP created there was backed by a taxpayer subsidy of between $13,000 and $23,000.†   (source)
  • "What will you say to an American kid who does not get into a state university and whose family cannot afford a private college because that seat and that subsidy have been given to someone who is in the country illegally?" asks Ira Mehlman, the media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an organization that lobbies against the DREAM Act.†   (source)
  • The boys in Buenos Aires and the boys in Santiago will probably want to hand me a subsidy, by way of consolation and reward.†   (source)
  • Jim had obtained a subsidy from Washington for every train that was run, not as a profit making carrier, but as a service of "public equality."†   (source)
  • You haven't repaid a penny-and with all of you boys going broke and the tax receipts crashing, where do you expect us to get the money to hand you a subsidy?†   (source)
  • But I have seized every loot carrier that came within range of my guns, every government relief ship, subsidy ship, loan ship, gift ship, every vessel with a cargo of goods taken by force from some men for the unpaid, unearned benefit of others.†   (source)
  • But, of course, the public does need railroads, and perhaps I could manage to absorb a certain raise in rates, if I were to get-it's just a thought-if I were to get a subsidy to carry me over the next year or two, until I catch my stride and-"†   (source)
  • But thirty million dollars of subsidy money from Washington had been plowed into Project Soybean-an enormous acreage in Louisiana, where a harvest of soybeans was ripening, as advocated and organized by Emma Chalmers, for the purpose of reconditioning the dietary habits of the nation.†   (source)
  • An' he says, 'Railroads an' shippin' companies draws subsidies--ain't that relief?'†   (source)
  • No one harbored a fairer admiration for mere goodness, but she had been obliged to watch herself sacrificing her kindliness, almost her idealism, to generalship, so dreadful were the struggles to obtain her subsidies from her superiors in the church.†   (source)
  • There wouldn't be any subsidies.†   (source)
  • The leaders and organizers were maintained by the businessmen directly—aldermen and legislators by means of bribes, party officials out of the campaign funds, lobbyists and corporation lawyers in the form of salaries, contractors by means of jobs, labor union leaders by subsidies, and newspaper proprietors and editors by advertisements.†   (source)
  • If the colony of Liberia were so situated as to be able to receive thousands of new inhabitants every year, and if the negroes were in a state to be sent thither with advantage; if the Union were to supply the society with annual subsidies, *v and to transport the negroes to Africa in the vessels of the State, it would still be unable to counterpoise the natural increase of population amongst the blacks; and as it could not remove as many men in a year as are born upon its territory…†   (source)
  • It was in the section included between this range and the Rocky Mountains that the American engineers found the most formidable difficulties in laying the road, and that the government granted a subsidy of forty-eight thousand dollars per mile, instead of sixteen thousand allowed for the work done on the plains.†   (source)
  • The South and the West have no vessels, but they cannot refuse a willing subsidy to defray the expenses of the navy; for if the fleets of Europe were to blockade the ports of the South and the delta of the Mississippi, what would become of the rice of the Carolinas, the tobacco of Virginia, and the sugar and cotton which grow in the valley of the Mississippi?†   (source)
  • Isaac the Jew also seemed to have vanished, and with him the hope of certain sums of money, making up the subsidy for which Prince John had contracted with that Israelite and his brethren.†   (source)
  • And I only work at the stupid labs to subsidize my school ….†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • I subsidize no pictures but pretty pictures.†   (source)
  • We can stay there in a subsidized flat in halls during the week, and come back here most weekends.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • Her father had subsidized Robbie's education all his life.†   (source)
  • There were federally-subsidized housing projects not far from here called Maravilla.†   (source)
  • You just can't expect me to subsidize you while you …"†   (source)
  • Chente arranged for me to hide out in a federally-subsidized housing project in San Pedro.†   (source)
  • "Costs like that are indefensible in publicly subsidized housing," she said.†   (source)
  • It doesn't include the billions the government spends to subsidize corn.†   (source)
  • Of course, the American taxpayers have already paid part of the cost by subsidizing corn.†   (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ize" converts a word to a verb. This is the same pattern you see in words like apologize, theorize, and dramatize.
  • We can tell him the L & J Fund is intended to subsidize writers and actors if you want.†   (source)
  • The guard seemed furious with his government subsidized book of matches.†   (source)
  • For example, one out-of-the-box way to reduce pregnancies is to subsidize school uniforms for girls.†   (source)
  • The state subsidizes the cost with taxpayers' money just so that the prices aren't prohibitive."†   (source)
  • "True, but the Sappington place ain't exactly subsidized housing."†   (source)
  • 17 percent of students received free or subsidized lunches because they were below the poverty line.†   (source)
  • Should it ever get into financial difficulties I might even have to subsidize it.†   (source)
  • At the end of it a resolution to subsidize Thurn and Taxis failed.†   (source)
  • After two years in an overheated university-subsidized apartment, Ashima and Ashoke are ready to purchase a home.†   (source)
  • There was talk of Pell Grants, subsidized loans, unsubsidized loans, scholarships, and something called "work-study."†   (source)
  • The industry of Angolans doesn't subsidize foreigners, or any castles with moats, and their children are likely to get vaccinations and learn to read.†   (source)
  • The fees were low and it wasn't hard to scratch out a living, staying in the hostel, eating in the subsidized student mess, rarely going to class, working instead as a draftsman in gloomy architectural firms that exploited cheap student labor to render their presentation drawings and to blame when things went wrong.†   (source)
  • The automobile industry, however, was not content simply to reap the benefits of government-subsidized road construction.†   (source)
  • I knew I'd smoke maybe five of them, but so long as I subsidized the Colonel's smoking, he couldn't really attack me for being another rich kid, a Weekday Warrior who just didn't happen to live in Birmingham.†   (source)
  • I had Pell Grants and government-subsidized low-interest student loans that made college affordable, and need-based scholarships for law school.†   (source)
  • Robbie Turner, only son of a humble cleaning lady and of no known father, Robbie who had been subsidized by Briony's father through school and university, had wanted to be a landscape gardener, and now wanted to take up medicine, had the boldness of ambition to ask for Cecilia's hand.†   (source)
  • Most of the people live in the mountains surrounding Kentucky Highway 15, in trailer parks, in government-subsidized housing, in small farmhouses, and in mountain homesteads like the one that served as the backdrop for the fondest memories of my childhood.†   (source)
  • Residents of federally-subsidized housing projects — once designated as havens of crime, drugs and gang warfare — covered up the bland pastel walls with bold-colored, message-laden works of art.†   (source)
  • He hit on a scheme to use government money to buy and restore historic houses for subsidized tenants.†   (source)
  • Some people complain privately about poor blacks living in subsidized housing so close to the historic district.†   (source)
  • Society is not bearing the cost of water pollution, of antibiotic resistance, of food-borne illnesses, of crop subsidies, of subsidized oil and water -- all the hidden costs to the environment and the taxpayer that make cheap food seem cheap.†   (source)
  • A 1981 study by the General Accounting Office found that the SBA had guaranteed 18,000 franchise loans between 1967 and 1979, subsidizing the launch of new Burger Kings and McDonald's, among others.†   (source)
  • Job training schemes subsidized by the federal government should insist that companies employ workers for at least a year — and actually provide some training.†   (source)
  • The strongest engines of American economic growth in the 1990s — the computer, software, aerospace, and satellite industries — have been heavily subsidized by the Pentagon for decades.†   (source)
  • American taxpayers have in effect subsidized the industry's high turnover rate, providing company tax breaks for workers who are employed for just a few months and receive no training.†   (source)
  • CONGRESS SHOULD BAN ADVERTISING that preys upon children, it should stop subsidizing dead-end jobs, it should pass tougher food safety laws, it should protect American workers from serious harm, it should fight against dangerous concentrations of economic power.†   (source)
  • In the summer that followed, writing in the Recorder, Callender revealed that Jefferson, while Vice President, had secretly subsidized and encouraged him as he broke the Hamilton-Reynolds scandal and did all he could to defame John Adams.†   (source)
  • Already the mayor was feeling the heat; you could tell, because his surrogates on the council and the boards of Estimate and Education had begun quietly assailing Kwang for his interest in providing tax vouchers for bilingual education, to have English Only in the schools but subsidize native language study outside.†   (source)
  • He was subsidizing the wealthy kids one at a time, reaching a population that probably didn't need the extra help anyway.†   (source)
  • He lived in the mill village, in one of those houses the mills subsidized for their workers, back when companies still did things like that.†   (source)
  • And living in a subsidized apartment?†   (source)
  • Subsidized job-training programs tend to be fairly popular among Democrats and Republicans, and certainly benefit some people.†   (source)
  • This disregards subsidized, dumped, and donated foodstuffs, most of which come from the large profit caused by the controlled low price at catapult head.†   (source)
  • Refugees were not allowed to work either; they had to scrape by in the underground economy, and they were not eligible for the subsidized housing offered to Egyptian citizens.†   (source)
  • If you could get on there, you could get $114 a week, subsidized Blue Cross, Blue Shield and free roast beef at the Christmas party.†   (source)
  • When Clapp found her she was living in subsidized housing with her two teenagers and a younger sister, and she was working part-time for an oil jobber.†   (source)
  • However, citizens of foreign countries, who break the law to enter Arizona illegally, are given taxpayer subsidized tuition ….†   (source)
  • Sweep aside those parasites of subsidized classrooms, who live on the profits of the mind of others and proclaim that man needs no morality, no values, no code of behavior.†   (source)
  • We moved quickly northward, heading for Wisconsin through a noble land of good fields and magnificent trees, a gentleman's countryside, neat and white-fenced and I would guess subsidized by outside income.†   (source)
  • It was a standing joke that he was so keen on subsidizing the revolution that he expropriated himself and organized strikes at his own plants.†   (source)
  • The Sunday visits went on; the photographs continued to appear in the subsidized magazines that specialized in Africa.†   (source)
  • Feeling obliged, as fellow aristocrats, to help Thurn and Taxis weather its troubles, they put out probes to see if the house was interested at all in being subsidized.†   (source)
  • The magazines about African affairs —even the semi-bogus, subsidized ones from Europe—and the newspapers, though censored, had spread new ideas, knowledge, new attitudes.†   (source)
  • Photographs of this State Domain—and of others like it in other parts of the country—began to appear in those magazines about Africa that were published in Europe but subsidized by governments like ours.†   (source)
  • Two thousand pharmacologists and bio-chemists were subsidized in A.P. 178.†   (source)
  • It would have been nice to have subsidized boys' clubs and girls' clubs, and social centres, and to have had more hospitals.†   (source)
  • Volume I, concerned with Classification, had achieved some success in a small subsidized edition.†   (source)
  • Five million subscribers, the memorandum continued, would therefore in the course of twenty years recycle newspaper worth the immense sum of three hundred million marks, two-thirds of which would be applied to renewing subscriptions, making them much cheaper, and one-third, around one hundred million marks, made available for humanitarian purposes—to finance tuberculosis sanatoriums for the general public, to subsidize struggling artists, and so forth.†   (source)
  • …the villages, nine hundred yards round the city, to deliver in every morning six beeves, forty sheep, and other victuals for my sustenance; together with a proportionable quantity of bread, and wine, and other liquors; for the due payment of which, his majesty gave assignments upon his treasury:— for this prince lives chiefly upon his own demesnes; seldom, except upon great occasions, raising any subsidies upon his subjects, who are bound to attend him in his wars at their own expense.†   (source)
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