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Tending toward, inclined to, as in She was given to eating crackers in bed . [Late 1500s]
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She said the money would come from the subsidies already given to some of the country's public universities and the money allocated to the student financial assistance fund.

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The maximum amount given to an individual with no children through the three combined pandemic-era stimulus payments was $3,200.

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A bill to sharply reduce the energy credits given to homeowners with rooftop solar panels is pitting union electrical workers and the state’s big utilities against people who benefit from the solar credits — and one of the first skirmishes took place in the City of Industry on Wednesday.

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Calderon and the electrical workers point to an analysis by the state Public Utilities Commission’s public advocates office that said the credits given to rooftop owners for the electricity they send to the grid is raising the electric bills of customers who don’t own the panels by $8.5 billion a year.

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“As long as production is increased, little concern is given to whether it is at the cost of future resources or the health of the environment; as long as the clearing of a forest increases production, no one calculates the losses entailed in the desertification of the land, the harm done to biodiversity or the increased pollution,” he wrote.

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