The measure, for federal income tax purposes, of the dividend to individual stockholders would be the fair market value of the shares at the time of each annual distribution.

The law includes health-related provisions to take effect over the next four years, including expanding Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL ), subsidizing insurance premiums for people making up to 400 % of the FPL ($ 88, 000 for family of 4 in 2010 ) so their maximum " out-of-pocket " payment for annual premiums will be from 2 % to 9. 5 % of income, providing incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, prohibiting denial of coverage and denial of claims based on pre-existing conditions, establishing health insurance exchanges, prohibiting insurers from establishing annual coverage caps, and support for medical research.

Then, from October 24 – October 29, stock prices suffered three multi-digit percentage drops, wiping out more than $ 30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange ( 10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government ).

* October 24 – October 29 – Wall Street Crash of 1929: Three multi-digit percentage drops wipe out more than $ 30 billion from the New York Stock Exchange ( 10 times greater than the annual budget of the federal government ).

Drinking water faces an annual shortfall of $ 11 billion to manage their aging facilities and comply with federal regulations.

Amtrak also receives annual appropriations from the federal government to supplement operating and capital programs.

In some states, the annual federal appropriations to the land-grant college under these laws exceed the current income from the original land grants.

They became dependent upon annual federal payments guaranteed by treaty.

There is an additional levy of 1. 0 %, known as the Medicare Levy Surcharge, for individuals on high annual incomes ( which increased to $ 70, 000 in the 2008 federal budget ) who do not have adequate levels of private hospital coverage.

In all crossings of the Tropic of Cancer with Mexican federal highways, this is the only place where the latitude is marked with absolute precision and where the annual drift between 2005 and 2010 can be appreciated.

Among its revenue sources for the year ending March 31, 2006, the CBC received $ 946 million in its annual funding from the federal government, as well as $ 60 million in " one-time " supplementary funding for programming.

In 1849, Walker stated in his annual report that several federal offices were placed in departments which they had little to do with.

The required budget of an annual € 10 million is currently provided by federal German, Schleswig-Holstein state and EU funds.

It has two generals, a federal council with proportional representation of members and an annual assembly of all free citizens.

By enacting these various forms of legislative direction, Congress established a category for annual budgetary amounts of assistance to victims of various types of hazards or disasters, it specified the qualifications, and then it established or delegated the responsibilities to various federal and non-federal agencies.

Vilas County residents massed in angry throngs to interfere with Native Americans who had gained recognition for their natural resource management jurisdiction off of a federal ethnic reservation, throwing rocks and trying to capsize boats from which families gathered their annual quota of fish.

While the National Assessment of Education Progress ( NAEP ) has served as an educational barometer for some thirty years by administering standardized tests on a regular basis to random schools throughout the United States, efforts over the last decade at the state and federal levels have mandated annual standardized test administration for all public schools across the country.

Major employers include Ellsworth Air Force Base, home of the 28th Bomb Wing flying the B-1B long-range bomber ; the Army National Guard based at Camp Rapid and hosting annual exercises in the Black Hills drawing troops from five to ten states ; and various federal agencies including the National Park Service, US Forest Service, and Indian Health Service.

Unlike the American Association who held their conventions in various cities across the country, the National Association held its annual conventions in Washington D. C. with its efforts concentrated on the federal government.

The older provinces already had this control, but when Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba were admitted to Confederation, the federal government retained resource rights and paid the provincial governments an annual grant as compensation.

When the Senate held up annual payments to the District because of debate over whether the federal government should continue to pay for holding the District's partisan elections, Barry called for public hearings on the subject.

Each local grantee is required to have an annual financial audit, if it receives more than $ 500, 000 of federal support.

DynCorp receives more than 96 % of its more than $ 3 billion in annual revenues from the US federal government.

In 2002, Heritage began publishing its annual Index of Dependence report on the growth of federal government programs that constrain private sector or local government alternatives and impact the dependence of individuals on the federal government.

The clubs raise money for projects in the local community and hold annual events such as a fireworks display, duck races in the Gorge, a dragon boat race on the reservoir and concerts on the grounds of the nearby St Michael's Cheshire Home.

Although the original Constitution allowed Congress to change its annual meeting date by statute, this change eliminated any reference to a requirement in the Constitution that a lame duck Congress meet in the period between the election of a new Congress and its taking office.

East Islip continues its tradition of sports hunting and fishing as its marinas are home to several annual fishing tournaments and its marshes continue to serve many duck and other water fowl hunters.

Every year in March the Capilano River is host to an annual charity duck race.

The village hall committee organises many events throughout the year, such as a duck race ( where plastic yellow ducks are raced down the stream ), a free bonfire and fireworks display ( held on the Downs overlooking the village ), quiz nights, amateur dramatics, barn dances, and an annual Village Day, which has a barbecue, live music and a dog show.

On August Bank Holiday, the Pulborough duck race society hosts its annual duck race, a charity event.

In the United States there is concern among some collectors that the United States Postal Service has become a promotional agent for the media and entertainment industry, as it has frequently issued entire sets of stamps featuring movie stars and cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson Over the decades the annual average number of new postage stamp issued by the U. S. P. S.

On 16 March 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act, which requires an annual stamp purchase by all hunters over the age of sixteen.

The first semi-postal stamp was issued in 1913, but regular annual issues did not start until 1915.

According to Stanley Gibbons, rare stamps have averaged an annual compound return of 10 per cent over the past 50 years, however, it is important to remember that this figure has been calculated using backtesting as stamp price indexes are a recent innovation.

* annual adjustments in food stamp allotments rather than semi-annual ;

The choice of pictorial designs is governed by a combination of anniversaries, required annual issues ( such as Christmas stamps ), postal rate changes, exhaustion of existing stamp stocks, and popular demand.

Since 1987, the annual stamp series have been minted on a single sheet of adhesive-backed glossy paper, of a quality similar to that of conventional postage stamps.

The annual stamp program is designed to reflect many different aspects of American culture and includes stamps honoring individuals, history, culture, sports, and science and technology.

2005 became the season where King would stamp his mark on rugby league, beginning the season by scoring seven tries in the first seven games of the season including a set of doubles against Brisbane and Canberra and yet again impressing City vs Country selectors enough to be again selected in the annual clash.

They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

Octavian made another bold move in 44 BC when without official permission he appropriated the annual tribute that had been sent from Rome's Near Eastern province

The British were able to annex Sind and for his services, Hasan Ali Shah received an annual pension of £ 2, 000 from General Charles Napier, the British conqueror of Sind with whom he had a good relationship.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

In historical times Greek maidens of Ephesus performed an annual circular dance with weapons and shields that had been established by Hippolyta and her Amazons.

The assembly meetings did not occur at fixed intervals, as they had to avoid clashing with the annual festivals that followed the lunar calendar.

The Epidaurians had been accustomed to make annual offerings to the Athenian deities Athena and Erechtheus in payment for the Athenian olive-wood of which the statues were made.

However, many " free " BBSes also maintained close knit communities, and some even had annual or bi-annual events where users would travel great distances to meet face-to-face with their on-line friends.

Routine immunization with BCG was withdrawn in 2005 because of falling cost-effectiveness: whereas in 1953, 94 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB, by 1988, the annual incidence of TB in the UK had fallen so much, 12, 000 children would have to be immunized to prevent one case of TB.

As acting commissioner, Selig represented MLB during the 1994 players strike and cancelled the World Series, marking the first time the annual event had not been staged since 1904.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

Bunge remained a privately held company of 180 shareholders ( including the longtime controlling family interests ) and divested itself in 1998 of almost all its retail foods interests in favor of a greater role in international agribusiness and commodity markets ; by then the company's gross annual turnover had reached US $ 13 billion.

First, Decius ' predecessor Philip the Arab had refused to continue payments, initiated by Emperor Maximinus Thrax in 238, of annual subsidies to the aggressive tribes of the region.

RAI International's latest politically appointed President ( an avowed right wing nationalist and former spokesperson for Giorgio Almirante, the leader of the post-fascist party of Italy ) had unilaterally terminated a 20-year-old agreement and stripped all of its 1, 500 to 2, 000 annual hours of programming from TLN Telelatino, a Canadian-run channel which had devoted 95 % of its prime time schedule to RAI programs for 20 years since TLN was founded.

Scientists at the Earth Institute of Columbia University have analyzed data from 1950 to 2004 and suggest that ENSO may have had a role in 21 % of all civil conflicts since 1950, with the risk of annual civil conflict doubling from 3 % to 6 % in countries affected by ENSO during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.

He replaced mandatory military service among the middle class with an annual tax, established primary schools, and resettled East Prussia ( which had been devastated by the plague in 1709 ).

In 1931 – 32 archives indicate the Gulag had approximately 200, 000 prisoners in the camps ; in 1935 — approximately 800, 000 in camps and 300, 000 in colonies ( annual averages ).

Overall inflation for 1990 had reached 36. 4 percent — not the hyperinflation experienced by some Latin American counties — but still the highest annual rate for Honduras in forty years.

As such, he had the annual task of announcing the recipient of the Nobel prize in literature to the public.

It was officially announced on August 10, 2010, that House of Pain had reunited and performed their first show in a decade at the second annual Epicenter Music Festival in Fontana, California, on September 25, 2010.

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.