Since the glamour of the football World Cup final in July, barely a week has passed without a big event.
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For the first time in six months, a week has passed without the ECB making emergency bond purchases.
Barely a week has passed since George Osborne was being cheered in the House of Commons for securing the appointment of Mark Carney as the next Bank of England governor.
The protagonist could be a guy in his prime with cancer or AIDS, but I'm reminded of my 90-year-old dad begging to be taken home a week before he passed.
The Connecticut House last week passed a ban on junk food in schools, and in Kentucky, a new law will limit Pizza Hut in the cafeteria to just one day a week.
Last week lawmakers passed a bill penalising drivers who come to New Mexico with drunk-driving convictions from other states.
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Personal terms have been agreed and Hernandez passed a medical this week.
Just last week, Congress passed a bipartisan trade agreement with Korea that will allow us to sell more goods into that country.
Last week, firefighters passed a vote of no confidence in senior management.
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This week, Israel passed a law banning models from advertisements or fashion shows if they measure less than 18.5 on the body mass index (BMI).
This week the country passed a milestone that should have been equally heralded: The US Federal debt ceiling was raised over 100% of GDP.
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Just last week, we passed a bipartisan trade agreement with Korea that will allow us to sell more goods overseas and support almost 70, 000 jobs here at home.
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Last week the Senate passed a substantial but flawed energy bill, which imposed tougher fuel-efficiency standards on cars but failed to consider a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Counties, which represents two-thirds of the nation's counties, passed a motion last week asserting the right of local governments to require cable companies to provide open access.
Just a week after the Security Council unanimously passed the zero tolerance resolution, the US announced that Iraq had violated it by firing on American and British warplanes enforcing the UN-established no-fly zones.
The Federal Electricity Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed a rule last week, Order No. 1000, that aims to facilitate the building of transmission infrastructure, the wires that bring us electricity from the power plant or other generation device.
Some welcome good news for taxpayers: Before leaving town this week, Congress passed a bill suspending 2009 rules that force older individual retirement account owners and those who have inherited IRAs to take minimum annual withdrawals from these now-shrunken accounts.
He made no mention of Mitt Romney, his all-but-certain opponent in November, but took aim at House Republicans who passed a measure last week that would pay for extending the lower student loan rate by cutting from a health care fund that promotes preventive care.
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The House also passed a 13-week extension on unemployment benefits and a nonbinding proposal that calls for the Pentagon to begin redeploying U.S. troops from Iraq within 30 days, with the goal of getting all U.S. troops out of combat operations by the end of 2009.
The turbines passed a G59 test last week, which looks at safety standards required for the connection of a generating plant to existing distribution systems.
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"It doesn't serve our confidence level to know that simply a week or so after we've passed the bill we're told the administration can't comply, " Daschle said.
The appointment comes in the wake of a European Union law, passed last week, mandating that 40% of corporate boards at public European companies be women.
The proponents of initiatives are therefore comforted by the news that, this week, Arizonans also passed a measure that will prevent both legislature and governor from countermanding future referendums.
Last week, the Senate passed a budget bill that included an ANWR provision, and drilling proponents believe they have never been closer to winning what has been a 20-year fight over this resource.
Last week, the Brazilian senate passed a measure that grants fiscal incentives to the nuclear power industry.
Public safety unions were supposed to be the holy grail of pension politics, but a bill passed by the Arizona legislature this week changed that.
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But on May 30th, the firm's annual general meeting is likely to approve a plan (passed by the board this week) that seems to leave most people happy.
And the fact that Obama passed Romney last week with a noticeable margin (ahead in both national polls and a majority of battleground states) would seem to confirm that.
Last week the UN Human Rights Council passed a resolution highly critical of Sri Lanka's human rights record.
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