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Under pressure from Beijing to maintain social stability, local officials are also trying to tamp down unrest by doling out back wages.

There can be a positive aspect to this dis-ease is often overlooked by those doling out drugs to suppress its symptoms.

A tacit pact between the Alawite and Sunni elites is cemented by the skilful doling-out of the fruits of economic liberalisation.

Tracy, doling out dinner, leads the carriage in a chorus of If You're Happy and You Know It.

doling out I doled out the food to all the children.

It might not hurt to try doling out paper bills the next time you're deciding on a bag of potato chips.

Libyans too looked askance at his doling out of billions in their country's oil revenue to foreigners.

It works by doling out government subsidies (up to $10, 000 a mortgage ) to both lenders and borrowers to 'modify' or reduce a mortgage .

Hard-pressed parents should not think they are the only ones doling out money to their children: taxpayers foot a hefty bill too.

And the terms of the contracts are still unknown; firms cannot start doling out cash on the strength of them.

Doling out aid for the victims of trade makes sense in theory; but in practice it is increasingly hard to do (see article).

Alas, this isn't a fairy tale; it is a common tale of office romance in which the doling out of prizes goes according to harsher rules.

Adjusting fiscal policy does not mean simply doling out more stimulus.

He carried on doling out public money and raising pensions and public-sector wages while shunning reform.

America's government is doling out grants and loan guarantees, and oil companies are investing, too.

Most spokespeople are experts at doling out cut and dried answers to reporters' questions.

So some companies are rewriting the rules for doling out financial incentives.

But when the housing market cooled, so did the lenders who were doling out loans to high-risk or sub- prime borrowers.

What is needed are little interventions: adding iodine to salt here, doling out vitamin A supplements there.

Banks, again, are frantically doling out loans where the government wants them to go.

On Tuesday the government unveiled plans to extend a moratorium on new casino licences and stop doling out land for gaming developments.

Instead of doling out money behind a veil of secrecy, decisions about where we invest will be made transparently.

Many scrollbars are quite parsimonious in doling out information to users.

Doling out $10 sends out the message that makes one feel bad about it. ?

Managing a team means more than just doling out work.

Bank purchased Merrill Lynch, which is accused of secretly doling out huge bonuses.

The sovereign fund is also in the process of doling out billions more directly to hedge funds.

That is likely to please none, least of all the city council, which may tire of doling out pain.

Ciliv has the clout to be doling out advice.

The government has a lousy record of doling out money incrises (think of the mess it has made in New Orleans).

doling out subsidies to private homebuyers