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  "title": "A New Rule for Setting the Margin for the Basic Rate of Charge",
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      "content": "- Creating an endowment funded with the profits from a limited sale of the Fund’s gold holdings.\n- Expanding the Fund’s investment authority to enhance the expected return on the Fund’s investments.\n- Resuming the practice of reimbursing the General Resources Account (GRA) for the cost of administering the PRG Trust."
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    "Publication title: A New Rule for Setting the Margin for the Basic Rate of Charge",
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