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In fact international students bring in critical income to our universities, which cross-subsidise the provision for home students – whether institutions will admit this publicly or not, the figures don't really lie.
First or Fail: University of East London and Theresa May 2011
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[The deal] would give Mr Murdoch substantial firepower to cross-subsidise his loss-making UK newspapers, enabling them to compete with rivals on price.
FT urges Vince Cable to investigate News Corp's BSkyB takeover 2010
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Someone has to pay, but in his model a few paying customers can cross-subsidise everybody else.
The Future is Free? Martyn Daniels 2009
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This fairness criterion was the basis upon which the Electoral Commission decided to allocate a minimum to all eligible parties and also to cross-subsidise from the allocation to the two largest parties to that to smaller parties.
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"In short: electricity sales are an essential source of income, used to cross-subsidise the cost of delivering other basic services and support generous indigence policies for the poor."
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First National Bank said it would cover additional costs from the account itself and would not cross-subsidise with other accounts.
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President of the Pharmaceutical Society of SA Siddiq Tayob told delegates that if the fee issue was not resolved sooner rather than later, his own pharmacy ran the risk of closure, as he did not have the luxury of a large front shop selling non-medicine items to cross-subsidise the loss from the supply of medicines.
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Among these was many municipalities did not have the revenue base from which to cross-subsidise their allocated operating subsidy, which meant the schemes were not financially sustainable in the long term.
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Cross-subsidisation - whereby richer households pay more and the poorest pay less - was impossible in areas where there was no source to cross-subsidise from.
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Poor muncipalities, by contrast, have no source from which to cross-subsidise poor communities.
ANC Today 2001
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