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What does RA stand for?

Rescue Aid (emergency communications)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
5 billion euro tranche of rescue aid to Romania due next month, Central bank Governor Mugur Isarescu said on Friday.
Bank of America, which received $45 billion in federal rescue aid, $20 billion of which was tied to the acquisition of Merrill Lynch, reported a second-quarter profit of $2.
This means restructuring must follow rescue aid," she said.
First, we have been authorising rescue aid for banks whose failure could have had catastrophic knock-on effects on member states' financial sectors and in turn their economies as a whole, potentially harming seriously every citizen and every business in Europe," she said.
A bit of both, actually, as Sergeant Neil Owen shows off Kestrel, the latest mountain rescue aid.
Under EU rules, governments are allowed to offer rescue aid to ailing companies under strict conditions, or restructuring aid on condition that the company undergoes sufficient restructuring that it does not require further assistance.
There are in such situation two possibilities: either you can give rescue aid which must be limited in time to a maximum of six months, or you can give restructuring aid which can last longer than six months but in return for which the company must restructure in such a way that it will no longer need public subsidies in the future.
Nicholas Lock made the Rescue Aid while taking his A-levels at Cowbridge Comprehensive in the last academic year.

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