Commercial Secretary to the Treasury Lord Sassoon set out the reforms this would introduce, such as abolishing the minimum age for joining a co-operative and removing the restriction on the maximum holding on non-withdrawable shares from a co-operative.

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How you can legally go about removing a co-founder may depend on whether your business is a partnership, limited liability company or corporation, as well as the state in which you set it up, according to Mr. Mandel.

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For now, Mrs Beckett is saying only that she is interested in removing barriers to co-operation between companies and their stakeholders.

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The group (whose UK co-chair is the former Defence and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind) also argues that removing them from combat bases would greatly increase early warning and decision time, and therefore reduce any remaining concern of a sudden nuclear attack.

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