So to our blueprint, we stick on some sticky pads.

And I had these little pillows that I would sew up.

Because people used to sew and they needed a pin cushion.

Leathery chest pads that beat the heat.

Close to balance or in surplus budgetary positions create room for the free play of automatic stabilisers , which facilitates the smoothing of economic business cycles .

As regards equal opportunities for men and wome, a number of major initiatives have been taken by Parliament.

Subject Labelling of fruit and vegetables treated with pesticides or fungicides

Deer, pheasant, and so on are not, of course, the food of ordinary folk at least not in the United Kingdom but rabbits have a long history of providing dinners for working families and what is good for one must obviously be good for the other.

outcomes in 2001 , as well as the operation of automatic stabilisers in 2002 .

So, in times of surprise that move bond prices and yields, the banks are not present to act as stabilizers.

To allow national fiscal stabilizers to work, governments must be able to borrow at an affordable cost in times of economic stress.

Where budgetary scope is available , automatic stabilisers can contribute to the smoothing of cyclical economic fluctuations .

These tuned structures allow the spines, friction pads and ultimately the adhesive hairs to grab onto very challenging, difficult surfaces.

With the ending of the favourable situation of recent years, I am very much afraid that neither the stabiliser mechanism nor the early warning system are proving of much use.

And now, in the Community itself and in the GATT negotiations, that is being uncoupled.

In the case of both the regional and the social fund, we have however, to calculate that, to some degree, resources will not be able to be committed by the end of the year.

China s lack of automatic stabilizers places the tension between reform objectives and growth imperatives in sharp relief.

ECB Annual Report 2002 provide timely , symmetrical and foreseeable adjustments , since they are directly linked to the structure of the economy .

The free operation of automatic stabilisers is appropriate in both economic downturns and upturns .

According to European Commission data , after the relaxation of fiscal policies in 2000 , the euro area fiscal stance was loosened in 2001 , as shown by a further decline in the cyclically adjusted primary surplus .

Now if we look at animals, though, to be really maneuverable in all surfaces, the animals use hybrid mechanisms that include claws, and spines, and hairs, and pads, and glue, and capillary adhesion and a whole bunch of other things.

Countries that did adhere to the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact are now experiencing fewer budgetary difficulties and are benefiting from the smooth operation of automatic stabilisers .

Question No 12 by Mrs Banotti consumer policy

The rules of the Stability and Growth Pact allow , in principle , for automatic stabilisers to work if economic growth deviates from its trend rate .

More progressive income taxation will also help stabilize the economy, through what economists call automatic stabilizers.

Finally, Poland needs sound public finances that is, fiscal space for automatic stabilizers during economic crises.

The Court of Justice has been especially careful to adhere to the principle,

Achieving and maintaining sound fiscal positions will also allow the free operation of automatic stabilisers and contribute to the smooth functioning of Economic and Monetary Union .

Automatic fiscal stabilisers are relatively large in the euro area and provide a powerful source of fiscal support to a weakening economy .

The budgetary deterioration compared with the initial stability programme targets mainly reflects the budgetary impact of the economic slowdown compared with the relatively optimistic macroeconomic projections in retrospect on which the initial budgetary plans for 2001 were based , as most countries did not restrict the free operation of automatic stabilisers .

On the left side he's got a modern motorized prosthesis with those three joints, and he operates little pads in his shoulder that he touches to make the arm go.

In particular , sound government finances are crucial in order for individual countries to be able to let automatic stabilisers work fully without running the risk of excessively high deficits .

But, given limited interregional transfers and labor mobility, this means that the continent has far less ability to absorb disparate shocks through the operation of so called automatic stabilizers.

In other words, when there is significant signs of instability in particular markets, it is the duty of the Commission to come forward with proposals to make sure that the trigger mechanisms which have been built in, the stabilizer mechanisms, actually operate.

Maintaining sound public finances will enable governments to let automatic stabilisers operate freely and thus contribute to smoothing the economic cycle and to supporting private sector confidence .

That is why the richer European economies tend to have large automatic stabilizers built into their public finances.

Budgetary discipline not only supports confidence by ensuring the sustainability of public finances , it also allows the automatic stabilisers to work freely ( see Box 6 ) .

Anyone who talks about making ice cream using natural ingredients only has probably used stabilisers anyway in most cases a natural product such as guar gum from guar beans.

Instead , provided that countries achieve a medium term budgetary position close to balance or in surplus , the Pact provides flexibility for the full functioning of automatic stabilisers .

That is what we do in public sector housing, with which you are familiar, in education and in health.

The full benefits from the operation of automatic stabilisers can only be reaped if public finances are sustainable , since economic agents otherwise adjust their behaviour in anticipation of likely future fiscal measures .

KOSTOPOULOS (S). (GR) Can Mr Vitalone say how the presidency can possibly find it acceptable that the Turkish Minister summoned eleven ambassadors but not the twelfth, not the Greek ambassador?

The operation of automatic stabilisers will provide a relatively large and powerful fiscal impulse to the weakening economy , in addition to already announced expansionary fiscal policy measures and the government support for the banking sector .

Mr Cot, Mrs Aglietta, Mr Prag, Mr Pannella, Mrs Veil, Mr Cot, Mr Cochet, Mr Andrews

We believe that the third framework programme has what it takes. In addition to a reduction in the number of specific programmes as compared with the second framework programme which, together with the restructuring of the Commission departments, should make its management more homogenous and rational there is also the desire to focus greater attention on disseminating the results of research.