The company also wants to convert the historic Rosetta House into three apartments with a further six houses being created from the current stable block.
And it could allow co-operatives like the Associated Press to reinstate anti-competitive policies that were found illegal long ago, such as allowing current members to block their direct rivals from joining.
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This issue has been the central stumbling block in the current world trade negotiations that are going on around the world--trade organization.
If they can block out the current noise in the marketplace, investors would be well served to consider the long-term relationship between risk and return.
The salvo is also aimed to block all funds for current and pending EPA greenhouse gas regulations on stationary sources throughout the remaining fiscal year.
The current program is funded as a block grant from the federal government to the states and other entities, leaving wide latitude in the types of assistance provided.
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But some junior scientists, convinced that current laws make it near impossible to block products they deem ineffective or dangerous, took the matter into their own hands.
"The bottom line is this: Food companies are ready and consumers will be able to buy fruit and grocery products over the New Year's holiday and beyond, " said John Block, former secretary of agriculture and current chief of the Food Distributors International.
To understand how these conflicts block change, consider the government's current proposal to reform the judiciary.
The simplest way for the federal government to restrain Medicaid would be to end the current system of matching state spending and replace this with block grants, which would give the states an incentive to focus on cost-control.
But even so, under current European law, national governments can do very little to block bids for private companies.
So long as low yields continue to support America's housing bubble and hence strong consumer spending, they will block any significant reduction in the country's current-account deficit.
The refusal of some rich countries to accept a second set of commitments under Kyoto (the current ones run out in 2012) was a big stumbling block in Copenhagen.
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The plans will see the current farmhouse almost double in size along with the conversion of a stable block for staff accommodation, the creation of a pond and the erection of large hack pens where the birds learn to fly.
Over the past several months, Sprint, which is in the process of being acquired by Japanese-controlled wireless carrier Softbank, has petitioned the FCC to drastically reduce the power levels of DISH's spectrum to further Sprint's desire to acquire the neighboring H Block spectrum, which today is essentially a vacant lot with no current licensees or users.
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After all, several European nations strongly dislike the current Israeli government and are unconvinced by sanctions on Iran: the West is a complex block.
The investor, known for his interventions in the management of other publicly traded companies, has also threatened to put up his own candidates to replace the current directors on the company's board, in order to implement his plan and block Mr Dell's buyout offer.
It's not unprecedented, and there's no current threat to water supplies, but officials are prepared to start building an underwater barrier to block the denser saltwater from moving further upstream, Corps spokesman Ricky Boyett said Friday.
Opening a Commons debate on the commission on 3 November 2011, Mrs Gillan told MPs she believed the current system - under which the Welsh government can only spend what it receives through an annual block grant from the UK Treasury - did not provide enough accountability for Assembly Members at Cardiff Bay.
Ideally this would be done by reforming Medicaid financing to provide the federal assistance to the states for the program through fixed, finite block grants, which do not vary by matching increased state Medicaid spending as under the current system.
Do you agree or disagree with converting the Medicaid program from the current system in which states and the federal government share oversight and funding responsibilities to a system of federal block grants to state governments, who would then decide how to allocate the grant funds to Medicaid recipients?
Even with current debt ceiling negotiations and some market participants fearing it will bring the tax exempt status back on the chopping block, it remains highly unlikely that anything will change, given the dire straits some localities and states are in, the impact to public services and the dent it would make to the Federal deficit.
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