Although Chrysler's manufacturing capacity will be reduced by 15%, analysts had expected even more closures, and noted the absence of any American assembly plants on the list.
Since the Welsh Assembly recently extended the list of public bodies which will have to become bilingual to include such outfits as the Student Loans Company (based in Glasgow), further compulsion might seem likely.
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Figures released by the Welsh Assembly in April showed waiting list numbers had fallen by 10, 000 since the previous year.
The ban was introduced by former Labour Welsh Secretary Peter Hain to stop candidates rejected by voters in constituency polls from being elected to the assembly by also standing for list seats.
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The number of service unit operators, who keep the oil flowing from wells and remove obstructions such as stuck pipes and casings, is up by a fifth, to 30, 440 from 25, 360 a year earlier, putting them at number three on our list behind aircraft assembly workers.
Because the three losers won a seat in the Assembly by also standing on their parties' regional list.
The Liberal Democrat leader in the assembly, Deputy First Minister Mike German, was a list AM here in 1999 and is likely to be re-elected.
The regional list votes will shape the party balance in the assembly, but the constituency outcomes are the key battlefields for securing power.
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Helen Mary Jones asked whether the first minister believes the UK Government will invoke their powers over the Assembly to compel Wales to include the controversial maize type in its list of accepted GM seeds.
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Now, in addition to the 80 first-past-the-post assembly seats, 40 members will be elected on a separate party-list system.
The twinning system which attempted to create gender balance in the assembly combined with a decision to put an English MEP on the European list higher than some Welsh candidates, were bound to cause some resentment in Wales.
In July 2004, first minister Rhodri Morgan announced that most Welsh quangos will be abolished within two years and in November of that year said the Welsh Language Board would be added to that list and its duties and staff transferred to the control of the assembly government by 2007.
In 2003, Labour won Clwyd West by just 436 votes - but the Plaid, Conservative and Lib Dem candidates who had all lost in the constituency were nevertheless elected to the assembly, because in each case they were top of their party's regional list.
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Her position at the top of Plaid's list for the South Wales Central region gives Ms Wood a reasonably safe route into the assembly.
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