Revised standards to be effective from April drastically lower the threshold for requiring a raft of safety measures at the planting stage to 100 becquerels per kilogram.
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In the seventies and eighties, the annual average rose to about a dozen. (Frustration with this increase led the Senate, in 1975, to lower the threshold for cloture to sixty votes.) In the nineties and early aughts, the average went up to twenty-five or thirty a year, as both parties escalated their use of the filibuster when they found themselves in the minority.
The lower we make the threshold for becoming a world power, the more tempting it becomes.
Well, the magical moisture-absorbing material may get even better, as the plan is to increase the amount of water the material can hold and lower the temperature threshold for its release.
If your adjusted gross income next year is lower than the threshold for the additional Medicare tax levels, your capital gains rate for 2013 might only be 20% (and it could even remain at 15%, depending on how the new rules end up after negotiations).
The spokesman said the increase was "in keeping with general practice", adding that "some other authorities set the threshold for levying the charge much lower".
This gives rise to the worry that the distinction between conventional and nuclear warfare would be blurred, leading to a lower threshold for a nuclear attack, and thus to the undermining of the global non-proliferation regime.
The Court began by clearly rejecting what it considered too low a threshold for materiality as adopted by the lower court.
To his credit, he has also promised to lower the threshold of 10% of the vote for parliamentary seats, a figure originally designed to keep out Kurdish parties.
This could see universities struggling to fill courses - and raises the prospect of greater choice and a lower results threshold for students seeking university places.
He is concerned that America seems to have a lower threshold for going to war than other members of the Security Council.
But apart from having a production budget that is one fourth the size of Oz the Great and Powerful and thus a much lower threshold for profitability Dorothy of Oz could easily end up out-grossing its live-action rival.
However, Japanese regulations have a lower limit for women, and the female worker in question exceeded that threshold three time over.
The threshold for placing a general law city in receivership or being dissolved is lower than that for a charter city.
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Either way, it's clearly beyond the threshold for classification as an INES level seven event, although an order of magnitude lower than the 5.2 million TBq released from Chernobyl.
That balance will change as the cost of LED bulbs comes down they've already fallen 30% since 2009 but for now it's lower maintenance expenses that are allowing companies to recoup the upfront costs in less than three years, a key threshold for bean counters.
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