It suggests that London set Scottish rates at 10p less than those for Britain as a whole, and cut its block grant by the amount that the difference in rates might be expected to raise.
The other is the Barnett Formula which annually alters the amount ceded to Scotland via block grant.
In the general election proper the two major parties receive a block grant, while minor parties receive an amount proportionate to the vote they received in previous elections.
If the bill passes, this will leave both T-Mobile and Sprint out of the 700-MHz band, but the small amount of spectrum that makes up the D Block would not have been enough to serve their customers.
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Instead they are created by the system's network when a specific amount of computer work, known as a "block" has been completed.
DC, now receives a block grant for welfare (a fixed sum based on the amount it received at the time of greatest need) from the federal government.
Instead, it likely bid on a host of less expensive regional slices of spectrum and made sure that the total amount was more than what was bid for the C block.
"Instead of trying to block all of this stuff, they will regulate and approve a certain amount of it, " the Financial Times' Beijing correspondent James Kynge told the BBC's World Business Report.
And also, to cut down on the amount of idling, and wherever possible not to have big block engines just running during the day for no other reason than somebody sitting waiting to pick somebody up or drop somebody off.
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The key to the 1996 reforms was that the block grants to each state were finite, not matching, so the federal funding did not vary with the amount the state spent.
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