But in border cities in the provinces of Limburg and North Brabant, there are local officials and residents who support the introduction of a weed pass.
He said the three warning stages were a weed notice, a cultivation notice and finally a termination notice if no improvements were made after the first two requests.
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As with any excise tax, the amount of revenue a weed tax could generate is a function of four big things: The tax rate, supply, demand, and price.
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Instead, he started his own company and spent the next few years buying and selling a weed killer from Helena Chemical, competing with Helena's own sales force for meager margins.
It was caused by a private landowner clearing vegetation with a weed trimmer, which may have hit a rock and produced a spark that ignited the dry brush, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Linda Christman said.
Artemisia grows like a weed across China and South-East Asia, but the best plants are found only in certain parts of China, such as Guangxi and Hunan, which produce most of the world's supply, and in Vietnam.
Today, a year later, a huge weed-filled lot now sits where one Tuscaloosa neighborhood used to be -- part of the huge mile-wide swath that the tornado cut through town at McFarland Boulevard and 15th Street.
After a brief stop at the bank, he leads us to the edge of a vast, weed-choked parcel that for 100 years was home to a plate glass factory, Crystal City's economic raison d'etre.
's Concern brand is one of two dozen companies offering an alternative to Turf Builder in a lawn fertilizer weed-control product that is derived from corn (but kills weeds like crabgrass only as they germinate).
Everywhere you looked, one of them seemed to be staring at nothing, drinking it in, transfixed: a dead stalk of dock weed or the blank corner of a stone wall or an icicle dribbled from the lip of a gutter.
Jimson weed, a white-flowered plant, also known as Thornapple, Stinkweed and Devil's Trumpet, is a native of Asia but grows abundantly in the United States.
On the minus side English Nature, a quango with responsibility for the environment, has published evidence that they might end up creating a new class of weed.
And it can certainly be argued that a more competitive system could weed out the bad docs we might be forced to see by some HMO program looking to save money.
On May 8th it was expected to allow foreigners to set up funds without teaming up with a local majority partner, a move meant to help weed out badly managed local firms.
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But he refuses to equate the interests of the welfare state's consumers with the interests of its workers, whom he has already begun to antagonise by creating a regime of inspectors to weed out bad teachers, social workers and doctors.
Maybe it was a great hank of river weed turning below in the cold current, maybe it was just the way gravity works in water, but it felt like something that matched me exactly, the same shape and weight and volume, and it always seemed as if that something came to life the moment I stepped into the water.
Anecdotal evidence of really awful teachers is always springing forth to justify a system of accountability designed to weed out ineffective, unsatisfactory teachers.
Based on established characteristics that define a good photograph, Google will weed out the bad shots, and highlight the good ones, and Google will use facial recognition to identify pictures that include your family and group them separately.
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This might include inserting a proportionality test for EAWs to weed out trivial cases and giving judges more discretion to refuse extradition when grave human-rights concerns arise, as urged by Fair Trials International, which campaigns for extradition reform.
Employers, too, have sought help from these providers: as unemployment numbers rise, the number of applications received for each posted position increases, and it can be a full time job to simply weed through the submitted resumes looking for potential first-round interviewees.
Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor and now a law professor at George Washington University, says the greatest concern will be to weed out people who want to be on the jury of a notorious case.
Another outbreak of the weed caused extensive damage to a number of important wetland habitats, including Exminster Marshes in Devon, earlier in the year.
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In the southern state of Tamil Nadu, piles of bricks and mounds of weed-ridden soil at a halted project attest to Wal-Mart's hurdles and frustrated plans.
Its chief tool is E-Verify, an electronic employment eligibility verification system used to weed out unauthorized immigrants when they apply for a job.
For a decade, Google and the other search engines declined to use a verification program created in 1999 by a group representing U.S. state pharmacy regulators to weed-out rogue online drug sellers.
On nice summer days, me and a good friend of mine named Heather would walk the sprawling weed-free lawn holding hands, dressed to the nines in our JC Penny tour guide income finest, and strolled towards the Cliff Walk over looking the Atlantic.
Demand Media took a major hit in traffic after Google changed its search algorithm to weed low-quality pages out of top results.
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Biometric identification is also helping counties to automatically weed through the fake, duplicate, and fraudulent entries with a speed and precision not before possible.
Scientists are concerned about the spread of the "weed" in the Chitwan National Park because it has been a huge conservation success story, with nearly 100 breeding adult tigers and more than 400 rhinos roaming within its territory.
The Swiss veteran is sure to be pleased by the ITF's confirmation of a biological passport scheme, similar to the one used by cycling authorities to weed out doping cheats.
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