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She tries innovative ways to separate people from their hidden earnings, which is, after all, her job.
Daniel Stern is frighteningly good as the sleezy con-man who works just south of the border, and hires Rudy to do whatever little tasks he could come up with (and pocketing most of the earnings, and a share of Rudy's).
I feel it might just be an attempt to use the other BIG pirate movie popularity along with the title wording twist to leech some of the box office earnings.
Total remittance from the OFWs, who send most of their earnings from such humiliating work, amounts nearly US$ 10B annually.
There can be a deal of ambivalence in the relationship between cop and prostitute.Being a prostitute is not in itself an offence.Soliciting for the purpose of prostitution is an offence,running a brothel is an offence,living off immoral earnings is an offence.Nonetheless a cop can have a lot of power over a streetwalker.He can arrest her,hassle her,keep her moving on,blackmail her for freebies,even take money from her.And she has little recourse.Most cops chose to turn a blind eye to all but the most blatant soliciting unless under pressure from above or from concerned citizens.The same goes for sex shows and massage parlours.A few,like Detective Wes Block,are attracted by their defiant sexuality and availability and the freedom they represent to have random uncomplicated sexual relief on tap.Like Block these men are usually separated or divorced,middle - aged and wary of intimacy and commitment.
I couldn't help but think that the star of one of the best movies I have seen in years could only manage a cheap house with her earnings while lesser actors in much lesser films earn millions.
Each year of additional schooling increases a learner’s earnings by 10%, on average, improving their long-term financial stability, and helping to lower the risk of a return to violence.
When asked to make a donation from their earnings, the money group gave just a little over half as much as the control group.
After all, bets on leadership, vision, and earnings potential should not be limited to investments in California-based technology start-ups.
The most important reason is a sharp improvement in corporate earnings, and in economic conditions in general.
The major accounting firms have clearly established a culture of permissiveness towards earnings manipulation.
The 1990's saw an unprecedented rise in the number of quarters in which earnings beat analysts' estimates by a penny a share, suggesting that more irregularities could be discovered.
But the fact that earnings beat estimates by a penny a share every quarter is itself only a sign of quarter-to-quarter manipulations of earnings, not of their wholesale fabrication.
Apart from its moral implications, such a society would face a classic dilemma: how to reconcile the relentless pressure to consume with stagnant earnings.
During the 1998 financial crisis, devaluation would have hurt those who owned local real estate but had little earnings or assets in US dollars.
Raising minimum wages could help limit the erosion of real earnings in the bottom quartile.
Moreover, young people have the option of continuing their education, thus adding to future earnings power, whereas continuing education is a much less viable alternative for their elders.
For example, corporations plow overseas profits back into their operations, often to avoid paying the high US corporate income tax implied by repatriating those earnings.
For example, US multinational corporations sometimes over-invoice import bills or under-report export earnings to reduce their tax obligations.
If something like this under-reporting of reinvested earnings or other balance-of-payments credits has gone on in the past, it may still be going on today – especially with US firms becoming aggressive about arbitraging corporate income tax.
Violators face penalties of up to 10% of their earnings, and during the last two decades, some of the biggest companies in the country – including Tiger Brands, Pioneer Foods, and Sime Darby – have been penalized.
This is a situation where earnings from oil exports drive up the value of the currency, reducing the competitiveness of other domestically produced products.
Companies that export goods would be able to exclude the export earnings from taxable income, equivalent to a 20% export subsidy.
But the military pays disability benefits that are markedly lower than the value of lost earnings.
Women are more likely than men to meet regular repayments and to spend their earnings on children’s health and education.
A corporate giant has little incentive to change its practices if the fines imposed on it amount to, say, less than a week’s earnings.
Tougher economic conditions in Latin America, and in the world economy generally, will eventually force spending back into line with earnings, causing economic upheaval, rending the social safety net, frustrating hopes of a better life, and leading inevitably to social unrest.
With limited, if any, hard-currency (US dollar or gold) reserves on hand, and little prospect for acquiring dollars through export earnings, European economies attempted to shrink their current-account deficits by compressing imports from other (mostly) European countries.
Ahmadinejad has benefited from a massive increase in the price of oil, resulting in unprecedented earnings.
As a result, fewer people will cross the poverty line, although more will see their daily earnings grow from two dollars to five, and from five dollars to ten.
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