set-aside

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set-aside

noun Money (a set-aside) taken out of the budget for a specific purpose (e.g., to fund a congressionally mandated program).

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The NEB will regularly review companies' estimates of abandonment costs, the coverage provided by their set-aside mechanisms, and the assumptions about how those funds will grow.

NEB decides on abandonment funding set-aside and collection mechanism

Solicitation W9126GEAO, covering work primarily for the Fort Polk, LA, office, is a small business set-aside.

The Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth district, plans to award several task order contracts for construction phase staffing support

The regulation defines the set-aside amount as the total amount set aside for benefit payments from both member contributions and investment income.

VEBA's excess set-aside is UBI

The abolition of compulsory set-aside from 2009 onwards is a part of the CAP health check proposal, adopted by the Commission on 20 May 2008 and it is currently under discussion in the Council, the European Parliament and the other EU institutions (see Europolitics 3532).

AGRICULTURE : MEMBER STATES READY TO ABOLISH OBLIGATORY SET-ASIDE

If it were June and not October, I would be more than willing to show Mr Lewis some dead, brown set-aside fields.

Letter: Voice of the North - Why farmers spray their set-aside in May

But the National Farmers' Union said measures to encourage birds must be integrated into productive agriculture rather than relying on set-aside or a substitute scheme.

Scrapping of set-aside prompts call to subsidise land forbirds

The set-aside program has been very helpful in settling these types of claims.

Medicare set-asides without tears

The list of likely VETS GWAC prime contractors currently engaged in the federal market is small and well-defined and the likelihood of new entrants is high given their new set-aside status," added Higgs.

Federal government contract to create boon for veteran-owned businesses

4 billion to minority businesses through various set-aside provisions.

Ready, aim, fire: critics continue to blast away at federal set-aside programs

Homeland Security EAGLE II: Small, 8(a), HUBZone, SDV set-aside.

Opportunities: top 10 set-aside contracts for 2010

The adoption of zero set-aside will give choice back to farmers and growers and allow them flexibility to meet the demands of world markets.

Set-aside should be set aside, says Europe; farming

The relaxation will remain in place until the end of the set-aside period on August 31, when farmers are anyway free to graze or harvest in this way in most cases.