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  • Rohack also called for efficiency measures such as electronic record-keeping to reduce administrative costs, as well as protection for doctors from excessive malpractice lawsuits.

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  • Set up 14 months ago, WWRE focuses on such things as common standards for weights, measures, shipment terms and sharing sensitive information.

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  • Its report called for measures such as cookery lessons and a voluntary ban by the food industry on TV junk food ads.

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  • We will continue to pursue additional protective measures for as long as it takes to ensure the safety and security of our citizens.

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  • The BCC called for measures such as set visiting times and restrictions on how much patients can bring in to hospitals to be introduced.

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  • Some parts of the new regulations simply reiterate rules that were already in place -- such as requirements for dust-control measures at construction sites -- but have been poorly implemented because the environmental authorities have lacked clout.

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  • The decision over what to put in or leave out of the Queen's Speech is a politically crucial one, usually the subject of months of political wrangling within government as ministers fight for their favoured measures to win a slot in the crowded legislative agenda.

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  • For instance, instead of using market capitalization as a basis for portfolio positions, some newer ETFs use other financial measures, such as revenue or dividend rates, to weight their holdings.

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  • President Bush should therefore offer a deal: strong, pro-growth measures as the price for signing off on the usual unproductive stuff.

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  • Property developers fell on mainland exchanged as expectations faded that accommodative measures for selected property loans from China's four big state-owned banks may boost demand.

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  • The plaintiffs' bar could have a field day years from now: Why did you as a director approve particular measures for Company A but not for Company B?

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  • The expense of creating such local-tax systems from scratch is likely to deter the government from importing the idea, though there is some scope for small measures such as taxing non-residential parking spaces.

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  • Peru needs further reforms, such as a new legal code for land and water rights, as well as more energetic measures to tackle widespread poverty.

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  • He said Labour would also suggest measures such as tax breaks for companies employing young workers.

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  • Seven more police stations in Surrey could be put up for sale as part of cost cutting measures.

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  • As bad as it looks for states, by most measures, the strain of chronically underfunded pensions is even greater for cities.

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  • Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has suggested such measures as ending tax breaks for corporate jets and subsidies for the oil and gas industry.

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  • This allows for boats to fish if they are practising "cod avoidance measures", such as eliminator trawls, which allow effective fishing for haddock and whiting while eliminating cod from the catch.

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  • The WCHE is also focusing on critical issues around reduced funding for education globally as a result of the economic crisis and the need for governments to find affordable measures for short-term skills training and work force enhancement in support of economic recovery and growth.

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  • The reforms also include measures to stimulate economic activity and improve competitiveness in Spain, such as an expansion of tax cuts for small and medium sized companies, and measures to make it easier to set up new firms.

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  • Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-South Dakota, promised to force votes on Democratic measures, such as universal coverage for Medicare recipients.

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  • Recent measures such as loosening reserve requirements for banks on short U.S. dollar positions are meant to induce private sector banks into increasing the supply of dollars.

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  • This is repeated about 60 times per image as the camera measures how long it takes for the light to travel back and where the particles land.

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  • Joerg Kraemer, chief economist at Commerzbank -- Germany's second-largest bank -- would expect the ECB to cut the deposit rate to negative territory before putting in place any other non-standard measures such as a loan scheme for small businesses.

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  • President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit Denver, Colorado, on Wednesday to highlight the bill as part of a campaign for national gun control measures in the wake of a mass shooting at a primary school in December, in the state of Connecticut.

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  • The decision over what to put in or leave out of the Queen's Speech is a politically crucial one, usually the subject of months of political wrangling within government as ministers and lobby groups fight for their favoured measures to win a slot in the crowded legislative agenda.

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  • Others note that Mr Bush's speech also repeated his support for un-green measures such as his Clear Skies Initiative, a bill to regulate emissions from power plants that excludes carbon dioxide (the principal greenhouse gas responsible for global warming), and his energy bill, which strongly boosts coal and nuclear power and proposes opening up protected areas of Alaska to oil-drilling.

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