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- noun A
distribution made in advance
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The total allowable transaction for each checking, debit-card and automated clearinghouse transaction remains the lesser of $10,000 or 90% of the Sept. 15 predistribution account balance, Reserve Management said.
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And no more than 90% of the predistribution balance of each account may be distributed, either through the liquidation process or service transactions in aggregate, it said.
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According to Rawls, while income redistribution creates dependency, property predistribution empowers.
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Under property predistribution, by contrast, the playing field is leveled by spreading property ownership before income is generated.
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And to actually post on topic, I think that the predistribution clearly states a specific agenda: in fact, it seems that they distributed the early releases to those who would tout the film: that aspect they can probably argue as a marketing strategy, and thus NOT giving pre-show copies to Clinton et. al. they can argue as not being in their marketing interests.
Think Progress » ABC Refuses to Provide Copies of Path to 9/11 to Clinton, Albright, Berger 2006
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So why don’t we, as Monopoly does, pay everyone some regular income — not through redistribution of income, but through predistribution of common property?
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The late John Rawls, one of America’s leading philosophers, distinguished between predistribution of property and redistribution of income.
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