President Obama, meanwhile, prepared for a rare Saturday Capitol Hill visit to twist Democratic arms on what is considered by some to be a make-or-break issue for his young administration.
Since the speed and efficiency with which a startup with limited cash is able to bring a competitive product to market is imperative, having the right people resources is a make-or-break issue.
So it is quite possible to imagine a rainbow coalition across the parties voting down any attempt to kill the Puttnam amendment. (Remember the Coalition agreement between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems doesn't cover this issue, so a break in collective responsibility would be possible - although every breach of this kind adds to Coalition tensions).
The majority (78%) say that they do not feel under direct pressure to work through their break but that it is a cultural issue for most workplaces, which may contribute to people staying at their desk when they are not being paid.
But Labour said Mr Clegg was passing up an opportunity to "break away" from the Conservatives over the issue.
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But he said that providing technical support when computers break down was going to be an important issue for schools, which had yet to be resolved.
After a one-week break we will resume publication with the Jan. 8 issue.
We need to break away from the uni-dimensional debate about poverty simply as a material issue.
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So in the Commons they have to weigh not only the particular issue confronting them, but the political consequences of their vote, if they break party ranks.
The U.S. State Department has said North Korea must provide a complete declaration of its nuclear program to the United States and its partners in talks on the nuclear issue -- Russia, China, Japan and South Korea -- to break the deadlock.
The US president has gone to Kansas to make a big economic speech, saying this is a make or break moment for the American middle class and that the ongoing debate about tax is "the defining issue of our time".
Then as now, the party in power was pushing a politically popular issue, eager to score an electoral victory before sending members home for their month-long summer break.
There they will discuss ways to break the deadlock in the peace process which has stalled since the political institutions were suspended last month over the decommissioning issue.
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