• Rogers also contributed six conversions and two penalties as the Waratahs went joint top with ACT on 10 points.

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  • Local governments in Japan seem inclined towards the former notion, yet the act of joint-stock incorporation creates expectations of the second.

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  • First NZ Capital and Forsyth Barr will act as joint lead managers.

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  • In the meantime Paul Clark and David Whitehouse of Duff and Phelps will act as "joint interim managers" of Rangers.

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  • The Taiwan Security Enhancement Act would expand joint training for our military forces, would permit more direct military contact between our respective armed services and would require the Administration to issue a comprehensive annual report on Taiwan's security.

    FORBES: NATIONAL DEBT WILL GROW

  • If you and your spouse filed your 2009 returns as single or head of household and would have saved tax with a joint return, you need to act very quickly in order to preserve your right to a refund.

    FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

  • In 1995 the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act substituted proportionate liability for joint and several liability as the standard for damages.

    ECONOMIST: Auditors

  • When I went before the joint Congress to present this American Jobs Act I said, let's give tax breaks to companies that are hiring our veterans.

    WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President on the American Jobs Act

  • To ensure that the American Jobs Act is fully paid for, the President will call on the Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reduction necessary to pay for the Act and still meet its deficit target.

    FORBES: Bringing Overseas Corporate Profits Back To US Not Necessarily A Job Booster

  • The Affordable Care Act mandated that states convert this joint state-federal program into a new, larger and far more expensive project in perpetuity.

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  • The Reorganization Act gave the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff real power over the services so that his advice to the President would not be a watered-down compromise.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

  • Hywel Francis, the Labour MP who chairs the joint committee, said human rights provisions in the Extradition Act were "clearly inadequate".

    BBC: Call for overhaul of UK extradition rules

  • Rep. Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican who is vice chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, is seeking to pass the Sound Dollar Act, which would end the Fed's mandate to keep unemployment down, instead having the central bank focus only on stable prices.

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  • Before the 2001 tax act passed, tax brackets were 67 percent wider for joint filers than singles.

    FORBES: How Marriage Can Boost Or Cut Your Income Tax Bill

  • The agreement, called the "founding act, " gives Russia a seat on a NATO joint council in Brussels, Belgium.

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  • Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who have been calling for Congress to act now on comprehensive legislation to deal with cyberthreats.

    MSN: Senate may go on recess without passing cyber bill

  • The two companies are now faced with a class-action lawsuit arguing that a joint venture between them violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • And on top of all of this is the threat of future defense cuts that would be triggered by the budget control act's sequester mechanism in the event that the joint committee, which Frank mentioned I happen to serve on, doesn't come up with a spending reduction package that Congress can pass.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • "We are convinced that we need to act without delay, " the two leaders wrote in a joint letter to European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, adding that the new treaty was needed by March.

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  • For example, Obama's speech in front of the joint session of Congress a year ago conveyed his desire to get Congress to act on health care reform.

    CNN: Oval Office setting is message behind the message

  • The Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, Rep. Kevin Brady, is readying his Sound Dollar Act, redirecting the Fed from its discretionary activism not calling for the gold standard but with a heavy deference to the price of gold for a fast start in the next Congress.

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  • Under amendments to the National Security Act of 1947, which created the position of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the War Department, now housed for the first time in a building of its own, became the Department of Defense.

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  • And when then-President Bill Clinton delivered his first speech to a joint session of Congress in 1993, he had only passed the Family and Medical Leave Act and was struggling politically because of the gays-in-the-military flap.

    CNN: Analysis: Obama takes 'morning in America' mantle

  • The 2011 Budget Control Act, which raised the debt ceiling and created both the fiscal cliff and a Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, which was supposed to find a way to steer clear of it, required four hundred and eighty-seven billion dollars in cuts to military spending, spread over the next ten years.

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  • And we can join with Israel, building on last year's U.S.-Israel Energy Cooperation Act, to deepen our partnership in developing alternative sources of energy by increasing scientific collaboration and joint research and development.

    NPR: Transcript: Obama's Speech at AIPAC

  • Iraq's government condemned the weekend attacks as a "terrorist act" that "creates a serious threat to the security of the border areas and the joint security of Iraq and Turkey, " spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh on Saturday.

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  • The joint House Senate conference then needs to include the above provisions in the final U.S. Coast Guard Authorization Act for 2008.

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  • In 1947, President Truman signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense, the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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