Sailing along the coast of Siberia by the north-east passage, or Northern Sea Route (NSR), as Russians and mariners call it, cuts the distance between western Europe and east Asia by roughly a third.
But the evidence suggests that large spending by special-interest groups by no means guarantees the passage of a measure.
Step by step - as with the passage of Cobell and the four historic water rights settlements - we are getting there.
Despite the dramatic increase in responsibilities brought about by the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act earlier this year, U.S. financial regulators still lack much needed increases in funding.
David Nalbandian secured Argentina's 3-2 passage against Sweden by defeating Andreas Vinciguerra in the decider.
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After the enormously consequential election of 1964, which returned Lyndon Johnson to the White House and swept large liberal majorities into Congress, the Kerr-Mills Act was rendered obsolete by the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965.
Republicans in the Senate failed by one vote to win passage of a balanced-budget amendment to the constitution.
At the same time, they built an entirely new building behind the palace, and the hotel occupies both edifices, which are connected both by an underground passage and a private walled park-like plaza.
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On his first trip to Dubai in 1986, Alukkas traced the passage previously made by millions of his fortune-seeking countrymen from coastal Kerala.
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But initial data collected by the SEC Whistleblower Office following the passage of Dodd-Frank show that such assumptions are badly outdated and that cultural impediments to whistleblowing in Europe, Asia and elsewhere are quickly eroding.
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Members will be aware that, as a result of concerns expressed by the Welsh government during the passage of the Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011, the assembly election scheduled for May 2015 was deferred by one year until 2016 to avoid a clash with the next general election.
It will begin its passage through the assembly after Easter, effectively by-passing the committee stage.
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If you thought the 2001 cuts were tough to get through the Congress, consider that, even with the use of reconciliation once again to avoid a filibuster, President Bush only managed to get passage in the Senate by a vote of 51-50 with Vice-President Cheney casting the deciding vote to break the tie.
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Built with a focus on high quality audio and video reproduction, with a compatible TV, the new line offers pristine 3D video via the latest HDMI standard, 1.4a, allowing for passage of the high data transfer rate required by the Blu-ray 3D format.
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DirecTV and EchoStar are making another stab at the FCC, but if that fails the satellite guys can only hope for passage of a Senate bill cosponsored by John Ensign (R-Nev.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) that would require cablers to sell all programming regardless of how it is transmitted.
If a deal is reached soon, then passage by January 1 is tight, the source said, but do-able.
Apart from Andrew Strauss carting Razzaq over mid-wicket for six, the passage of play that followed was dominated by the visitors.
The main Southwest Passage into the New Orleans port remains open, though the three-day trajectory of the oil slick provided by NOAA suggests the waters around the passage could become tainted.
Grassley's concern: a bill, headed for passage by the House of Representatives this week, to curb the ever-expanding alternative minimum tax by raising taxes on private equity and hedge fund managers.
Senators Patrick Leahy and Christopher Dodd are among those trying to prevent passage of a bill that was adopted 13-2 last year by the Senate intelligence committee on a broadly bipartisan basis.
Such a convergence of opinion should augur well for easy passage -- except that there is a competing resolution, sponsored by eight senators including the powerful majority leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole.
It provocatively points out that the U.S.-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA), now set for passage by the U.S. Congress, will soon put Japan at a further disadvantage to its arch-rival, a situation which would only be remedial by accession to the TPP.
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The passage of Ronald Reagan's legislation was helped by the Senate turning Republican from 1981-1986, for example.
Gaining legal status "would make it much easier for these workers to join together and improve their working conditions by joining a union, " said Eliseo Medina, secretary-treasurer of the SEIU, who labeled passage of immigration legislation as the union's top priority this year.
The GOP hierarchy plans a furious week of lobbying and arm-twisting, including a speech by Gingrich to the Republican Conference, in hopes of winning support for passage.
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Nadal finally won a game on his serve for 5-1 before breaking Davydenko but in the next game the Russian booked his passage to the final by taking his third match point.
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