Instead, it salts away the surplus, estimated at $ 625 million, to finance tax cuts that were enacted in previous years but have yet to take full effect, as well as to pay off the state's huge debt.
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Japanese savers are famous for their ability to salt away money for the future, but as a nation, this country has some of the worst accounts in the industrialized world, and its debt trajectory increasingly looks like that of a third world country like Tanzania.
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But when it came down to crunch time, there was Ewing, hobbled as ever, making 4 of 4 crucial free throws in the final 51.3 seconds to enable the Knicks to salt away Game 1, neutralizing Indiana's home-court advantage.
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The Giuliani administration expects New York City to end the fiscal year with $ 319 million more in revenues than it had forecast, largely because of continued robust profits on Wall Street, and it is proposing that the city salt away much of that money for the future.
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Struggling with a . 500 record, beset with injuries and coming off a short work week following a 23-10 loss to Pittsburgh on Monday night, the Bills on Sunday face the Green Bay Packers, winners or three straight and looking to salt away a postseason date.
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The Houston-based company, which owns the 12th-largest utility in the nation, will salt away about $ 1 billion in stock from the sale of its cable-television network to Time Warner Inc . The sale, announced in February, is set to close in July.
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Arnold Kaufman, editor of Standard & AMP; Poor's market letter, " The Outlook, " said profit-taking in technology stocks _ especially Internet-related stocks _ was prompted by individual investors " looking to salt away at least part of their gains ."
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All Oregon ( 6-1, 3-1 ) had to do was salt away the clock, but on third-and-1 from his own 30, Harrington was hit by safety Tank Williams and the ball floated into the hands of diving defensive end Marcus Hoover at the 33.
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Since he began working for Hewlett-Packard late last year, Mr . Volkan has managed to salt away $ 10, 000 in a bank savings account, and he expects to work about eight hours a week for the company during the coming year, which would bring in $ 11, 400.
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The score was 85 for San Antonio, 78 for New Jersey, a couple of minutes left in the pivotal Game 5 of the NBA finals, the Spurs controlling it for what seemed like forever, without being able to salt away a 3-2 series lead with two chances to win it back home.
