Shrinking budgets have increased competition for scarce resources, requiring managers to make tough resource allocation decisions that may affect program delivery.
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At a minimum, these budgets covered central staff salaries and training and security hardware and software.
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Support in constructing and managing budgets is needed.
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Many retailers today rely simply on jacket design and advertising budgets and never bother to read a text at all.
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There has been the growth of feminist bookshops, research and resources centres, publishing houses, journals and magazines- even if they usually exist on shoe-string budgets.
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Financial support to conduct this research comes primarily from the budgets of the member institutions but is supplemented by funds from international donors.
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Households and enterprises are thus prompted into accounting for environmental costs in their plans, programmes and budgets without impairing the allocative efficiency of the market.
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Various estimates of the full money and maize budgets were included, such as money income and the value of maize harvests.
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Although new innovative approaches are appearing, such as those based on microarray technology, these are still largely beyond the budgets and infrastructure of most laboratories.
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Data for the lower-middle-class family budgets are from two magazine articles.
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As a result, medical schools have steadily cut ethics budgets while trying to maintain full ethics programs.
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The decentralization of healthcare delivery and health budgets has also encouraged a number of independent telehealth projects.
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Exercises include discussion, role-play, simulation, report writing, negotiating budgets and contracts, consumer surveys, small talk, social arrangements, telling anecdotes, exchanging opinions, and socializing.
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Even as this is occurring, however, large middle-aged populations (and balanced budgets) fuel robust national savings rates.
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Local authorities still allocate the budgets to people who have an established ' local connection ', and are usually reluctant to take on people living elsewhere.
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Collocationswithbudget
budget
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advertising budget
Ten per cent of theadvertisingbudgetworldwide would allow developing countries to be given the necessary support to safeguard their agricultural infrastructure.
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allocated budget
Operating costs have been £16,000 per annum and expenditure has been within the allocated budget.
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annual budget
In this case, the expenditure trends of the national government on air, water, land, and mined abiotic resources in theannualbudgetare considered.
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