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German now receives annually out of the pockets of the distressed people of England _fifty thousand pounds a-year_, while the President of the United States of America only receives _six thousand_ pounds a-year; so that _Saxe Coburg_ does us the honour to drain the people of England of a sum more than _eight times_ as much as the President of the
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Henry Hunt 1804
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Dr Des Freedman, Dr Michael Bailey Editors, The Assault on Universities• News of the launch of the £18,000-a-year New College of the Humanities arrives at the same time as the latest research on income distribution.
Letters: The shame of this 'gated intellectual community' 2011
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Chelsea's seventh manager during the oligarch's eight-year ownership acknowledged he must win silverware early in his tenure if he is to see out his £4.5m-a-year contract, which runs to 2013.
André Villas-Boas: 'I'm expected to win straight away at Chelsea' 2011
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The service is available to subscribers to Amazon Prime, a $79-a-year membership service that allows gives customers unlimited two-day shipping on packages from the Internet retailer.
Netflix in Talks for Original Series Ethan Smith 2011
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Marileysi Garcia , 32, said she's worried about supporting her two daughters without her $46,000-a-year job as a parent coordinator at Bronx Academy High School.
City to Fire 700 Workers Lisa Fleisher 2011
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None of them seem to get it, Kate told one of her classmates at Marlborough College, the elite $35,000-a-year coed boarding school she attended eighty miles west of London in Wiltshire.
William and Kate Christopher Andersen 2011
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Meanwhile, new research by the Rarer Cancers Foundation shows that over 2,500 patients in England refused access to drugs by their NHS primary care trust finally got them from the government's £200m-a-year Cancer Drugs Fund in the six months after it began last October.
Older cancer patients more likely to die due to NHS 'age bias' 2011
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Chelsea's seventh manager during the oligarch's eight-year ownership acknowledged he must win silverware early in his tenure if he is to see out his £4.5m-a-year contract, which runs to 2013.
André Villas-Boas: 'I'm expected to win straight away at Chelsea' 2011
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The report calls for:• A doubling of the numbers of people able to use the government's £98m-a-year Access to Work scheme, which helps employers adapt jobs and workplaces for disabled people.
Axe sheltered workshops for disabled people, report recommends 2011
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Hogan-Howe is taking over the £260,000-a-year post after his predecessor, Sir Paul Stephenson, resigned over the phone-hacking scandal.
New Met police chief Bernard Hogan-Howe promises 'war on crime' 2011
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