But relying on this to cement national strength may turn out to be only a holding action technology is making local knowledge easier to replicate, and the price of most services is steadily falling.
The Congress will see debates on holding strike action over freezes to public sector wages, with marches planned for October in London, Glasgow and Belfast.
On Dec. 24, the Federal Reserve said it would allow GMAC to become a bank holding company, an action that permits it to receive TARP funds.
He said staff were unhappy the goal posts had been moved and the union was holding back on an industrial action ballot until CT Plus had discussed it with Unite.
But he said the watchdog was holding back from taking full legal action saying that the money it would spend on this would be better used on an agreed action plan with the Prisons Service.
"We advise that following failed pay talks yesterday in Paris, French port control officers will be holding a national day of industrial action which is likely to affect the majority of ports in France, " the spokeswoman said.
This belated action may persuade investors already holding CITIC paper -- or those considering the future purchase of its bonds -- to evaluate the inadequacies of past CITIC prospectuses and overall financial disclosure.
"The civil penalty action against China Aviation Oil Holding Company is a signal to the market that we expect all entities undertaking transactions in this jurisdiction to fully comply with Singapore law, " said monetary authority deputy managing director Shane Tregillis.
Obama has made the gun legislation a major focus of his second term, holding events across the country to push for congressional action and public pressure.
They are holding discussions next week and say that they can take action, although it would seem improbable that they would now reject the merger based on who the current board of directors want as their top manager.
The NI Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA) and the Law Centre are holding a joint conference in Belfast on Tuesday to discuss the planned changes.
The assembly's health committee is holding an inquiry into diabetes services as ministers consult on a new diabetes action plan.
As a paid viewer of the Pacquiao-Bradley fight, Steven Harris would have welcomed some objective interpretation of the action which to his eyes favored the title-holding Pacquiao.
The Justice Department action follows a landmark decision by a New York Federal Court holding that investors who were harmed by phony ratings could sue the rating agencies for damages.
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Whether or not Samsung wields these trademarks later this week, or at all in the near future, is still up in the air -- it may be holding on to names as a precaution rather than previewing a course of action.
Vieri, who had seen limited action in Inter's previous game, limped off the field holding his thigh after stretching for the ball near the Parma goal and colliding with the keeper Gianluigi Buffon.
Holding a controller in each hand, players throw punches into the air to control the on-screen action.
In reality, however, by 1960 there were as many women working as there had been at the peak of World War II, and the vast majority of them were married. (Young single adult women were, as we'll see, as rare as female action heroes at this point in history.) More than 30 percent of American wives were holding down jobs, including almost 40 percent of wives with school-age children.
"Holding the nation's top law-enforcement officer in contempt of Congress would be a drastic, disproportionate action on the part of this body, " she wrote.
Under first-to-file, an inventor who does not take prompt action to protect his or her invention faces a higher risk that a later inventor will end up holding the associated U.S. patent rights.
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"We work so hard to help people in our community when the government is holding back stuff that we can use to give people, " said Glenda Perryman, director of United Hearts Community Action Agency.
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