It said it is finalising a business recovery plan to get it back into financial balance in the next two to three years with measures already introduced including a vacancy freeze and restriction on non-essential expenditure.

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Commercial Secretary to the Treasury Lord Sassoon set out the reforms this would introduce, such as abolishing the minimum age for joining a co-operative and removing the restriction on the maximum holding on non-withdrawable shares from a co-operative.

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After six months, the non-diet group had lost an average of 1% of their weight, the calorie restriction group, 10.4%, those who were on a calorie restricted diet plus exercise, 10% and the very low-calorie diet, 13.9%.

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The Center for Reproductive Rights, which filed suit against the age restriction, and other groups have argued that contraceptives are being held to a different and non-scientific standard than other drugs and that politics has played a role in decision-making.

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