Words similar to earmarked
Example sentences for: earmarked
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In his WP column, Michael Kelly doles out some important context to the recent news that an international aid effort has produced $3 billion in pledges of aid for the Palestinian Authority: the London Sunday Times recently reported that the PA once diverted $20 million earmarked for low-cost housing to luxury flats for Yasser Arafat's elite instead, and moreover, that the PA's own auditors found last year that nearly 40 percent of the annual budget of $323 million was wasted, looted or misused.
This appropriated payment is separate from the transfer of earmarked premiums and is not a transfer of earmarked taxes or other income.
The NYT notes that no money has yet been earmarked for this elimination mission.
In most cases the invested balances of these funds derive predominantly from the funds' earmarked taxes, which are nonexchange transactions with the public (e.g.
(Understand that any money left over in the "general fund," i.e., money not earmarked for Social Security, is automatically invested in Treasury bonds.