Essentially, IPAB would substitute an unelected body for government, enabling it to make binding recommendations to reduce Medicare spending.
Last March, the European Union's member countries agreed to a binding target to boost overall renewable energy use by 20% before 2020.
In papers filed in the Western District Court of Wisconsin on Thursday, Apple and Google expressed broad agreement to use binding arbitration to resolve their issues surrounding standards essential patents.
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But to get to binding arbitration, the parties need to reach impasse, a term that in labor law means deadlock, with no hope of resolution.
In 2011 France gave common-or-garden lawyers the right to create binding documents similar to those endorsed by notaries.
Their real dreams were binding, EU-wide referendums or, failing that, Californian-style popular initiatives that could lead to binding referendums, recalls Alain Lamassoure, a French MEP behind the plans.
McKillop insisted on the convenience of an oral drug, but the scientists found it impossible to devise a pill that would block EGF from binding to its receptor.
According to the study, the nicotine vaccine led to a 12.5% reduction in nicotine binding to nAChRs, which was linked to a 23.6% decrease in the amount of nicotine available to enter the brain after vaccination.
For ardent gun-control advocates, it is an opportunity to press for a binding effort to reduce small-arms stocks around the world.
Labor activists hope the string of disasters, including the latest fire, will pressure retailers to sign onto a binding agreement to improve building safety in Bangladesh.
Mr Assad, whose forces' killing of 50 protesters overshadowed Mr Annan's announcement, is unlikely to pay more than lip service to any binding calls for him to back off.
But since assuming control of Congress in January with what leaders called a mandate to change course in Iraq, Democrats have struggled to craft acceptable, binding legislation to force the administration to bring U.S. troops home.
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An antisense drug, designed to look like the original DNA, could interrupt that process by binding to a complementary stretch of RNA and destroying it.
The Razer Nostromo's all-new configurator software is as easy to use as it is deadly, allowing gamers to conveniently customize all the buttons with any game command or key binding to open up a massive repertoire of killer combinations right under their fingertips.
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Xolair is a monoclonal antibody to IgE that works like a Star Wars missile defense for allergies, binding to and inactivating excess IgE before it can trigger an attack.
The advent of the Backbench Business Committee has already allowed such groups to bring a non-binding motion to the floor of the House, but this ruling ratchets up their ability to get Commons votes that are a bit more than merely symbolic.
John Kerry, who wrote to Time Warner Cable and News Corp. last week requesting the companies reach an agreement so viewers could watch football on New Year's Day, Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt said his company is willing to accept binding arbitration "immediately" to resolve the dispute.
So these are not terribly different approaches, but the binding effort, the binding essence is going to be the sticking point, I think, in negotiations between the House and Senate.
The proposal contained in this letter constitutes an indication of our interest in pursuing a transaction and does not constitute a binding offer, agreement or agreement to proceed with the transaction or to otherwise make a binding offer or agreement at any point in the future.
Specifically, he believed that it contractually required him to give to specific charities or foundations, versus morally binding him to donate at least half his wealth during his lifetime, or at his death, to causes he saw fit.
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Earlier this month, the companies exchanged proposals about hammering out some sort of global licensing agreement over standard essential patents, and both seem to agree that binding arbitration is the way to go.
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By binding to RNA, antisense prevents proteins involved in disease from ever being created.
Previous research found that enzyme-modified milk could stop Streptococcus mutans from binding to tooth enamel.
The outermost part of this layer prevents other particles, like dirt and grime, from binding to it.
As a result, a deadlock would leave the final terms of a settlement up to binding arbitration.
Just this week Delta pilots turned down an offer by Northwest to send the matter to binding arbitration.
These biotech drugs, all of which must be injected, work by binding to a molecule called the tumor necrosis factor.
When they hooked up with CD-2, the decoys prevented the real LFA-3 from binding to and activating the T cells.
PCBs do their damage by binding to a protein called the aryl hydrocarbon receptor, or AHR, thus stopping it working properly.
Nearly all drugs work by binding to proteins that help cause disease.
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