In the last 12 months, the Trussell Trust has set up 140 food depositories nationwide.

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Granite underlies much of the U.S., allowing for regional depositories that could cut the costs and risks of transportation.

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If multiple states adopt legal tender legislation, depositories open, and the DeMint-Lee-Paul bill becomes law, there will be an alternative monetary system.

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Last month the Department of Energy launched a 35-year search for a new permanent waste depository, with interim depositories to open in as little as eight years.

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It owns 10% of the Oslo Stock Exchange, and 60 other exchanges, depositories and clearing organizations, including the Nordic Exchange, an umbrella term used to describe the stock exchanges of Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Iceland, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius.

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But siting three nuclear waste depositories should prove no easier than siting the one that had been authorized at Yucca Mountain, Nevada in 2002 until the Obama Administration abandoned it in 2011, fulfilling an Obama campaign promise.

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In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.

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