Republicans should have, in our view, done what they had done just a few months before, which is pass a short-term measure to delay implementation of the sequester, a measure that would have represented the balance that the public supports, asking the well-off and well-to-do to pay a little bit, not just seniors and middle-class families, and that then regular order could have continued as it is now, but without the sequester.

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In particular, the federal government may try to prevent implementation of the California measure, making it difficult to collect tax revenue.

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Last week, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus co-sponsored a bill that would approve a measure to delay the implementation of to September 2012.

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Implementation shortfall remains the most significant measure of transaction costs for respondents (83 percent) while reversion measurement was also identified as an important consideration for both the buy and sell side, at 75 percent to highlight market impact.

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Proponents say the plan could be implemented as early as 2014, but opponents of the measure say parliamentary procedures and legal issues could delay its implementation until 2015 or even later.

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You give somebody some money to do something and most of the time you can really never measure whether you failed or succeeded in your judgment of that person or his ideas or their implementation.

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These collective efforts will increase our ability to measure and track progress made by states, cities, and local communities in combating the HIV epidemic as implementation of the NHAS continues.

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