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He manages assets for a sliding-scale fee, and typically charges as little as $300 a year for one or two routine financial-planning checkups.
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A similar sliding-scale subsidy would be available to individuals earning less than $43,320 and a family of three earning less than $73,240 a year.
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The Sports and Leadership Summer Camp offers scholarships and sliding-scale tuition fees so that girls from all backgrounds can participate.
K. Sujata: School's Out, Progress Is In K. Sujata 2011
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In passing, I may note that a single one of his editors to-day draws a sliding-scale salary of from £10,000 to £15,000 per year.
Running A Newspaper 2010
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The Sports and Leadership Summer Camp offers scholarships and sliding-scale tuition fees so that girls from all backgrounds can participate.
K. Sujata: School's Out, Progress Is In K. Sujata 2011
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The money would go to small banks which in turn would have to pay sliding-scale interest on the money depending on the amount of credit they lend to small businesses above 2009 levels.
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Of course, the Obama administration will argue that it is addressing the regressivity problem by providing a sliding-scale subsidy, up to 400% of the federal poverty level (about $88,000 for a family of four in 2010), to insulate lower - and middle-income families.
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Those who can afford to, pay for lessons; those whose families cannot, benefit from a scholarship and sliding-scale tuition.
Richard Z. Chesnoff: Two Nights At Tully: Professor Hawking, Yo-Yo Ma & Kids With Fiddles 2010
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Of course, the Obama administration will argue that it is addressing the regressivity problem by providing a sliding-scale subsidy, up to 400% of the federal poverty level (about $88,000 for a family of four in 2010), to insulate lower and middle-income families.
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Of course, the Obama administration will argue that it is addressing the regressivity problem by providing a sliding-scale subsidy, up to 400% of the federal poverty level (about $88,000 for a family of four in 2010), to insulate lower and middle-income families.
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