That is in addition to half the 7% first-year commission on such policies, he said.

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In the first three months of this year, the commission's model predicts growth of 0.1-0.4%, not far off the region's quarterly average of around 0.5%.

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The Godiva coat was Mrs O'Connell's first commission after qualifying from a five-year part-time textile degree at Coventry University in 2008.

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Insurance brokers, who typically get a commission worth 20% of the first year of premiums, were hoping that their revenue would not be counted.

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In his first year as president Reagan set up the U.S. Gold Commission to study returning to the gold standard.

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The first two were rushed out in draft form last year by the European Commission, without consultation, in an attempt to speed up the process.

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Last year, for the first time in years, the Federal Communications Commission refused to state whether the mobile communications market was competitive in its annual report to Congress on the state of the cellular market.

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Independent software vendors that sell Microsoft products now can earn commissions of as much as 23% on the first year of Office 365 sales to some companies, topping Google Apps' commission of 20%.

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One of the first rulings on the topic came in 1975, just a year after the Federal Election Commission was created.

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This year's poll comes in the wake of the first report by the all-party Silk Commission, published last November.

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