So majority voting seems most likely to be extended, if at all, in relatively innocuous areas such as industrial, transport and cultural policy, where unanimity has up until now been the rule.
Changes in agricultural practices and the local climate - thought to be brought about by global warming - as well as housing, industrial and transport developments have all taken their toll on good species-rich grassland in the county.
"Transport and industrial emissions generate smog that destroys sensitive tissues (in people and animals), as well as producing fine carcinogenic particles that reduce lung function, and are ultimately responsible for many untimely deaths each year, " Manins wrote in the report.
EIU's index measures the relative costs of doing business in 27 economies by compiling statistics relating to wages, costs for expatriate staff, air travel and subsistence, corporation taxes, perceived corruption levels, office and industrial rents, and road transport.
Last December, about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions began industrial action in a row over pay and cost-cutting.
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In the industrial era, cities boomed because expensive transport made it attractive for firms to locate near coal deposits, waterways and each other.
Industrial clusters have formed in health, transport and green technology.
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GE's industrial portfolio, especially its infrastructure units (transport, oil, gas, energy and aerospace), is increasingly international and is still growing solidly.
Rail Maritime and Transport union (RMT) members will vote on industrial action ahead of preparations to test trains without drivers.
In the late 1980s, the firm's main industrial businesses defence electronics, power generation, refrigerated transport, nuclear engineering and so on were technologically sound.
Negotiations followed industrial action by about 4, 000 members of the Amicus and Transport Workers unions earlier this month in a row over pay and cost-cutting at Northern Ireland's biggest manufacturing firm.
Mr McFadden's interests include the economics of transport, energy, the environment, health, development and industrial production.
The main industries now are book publishing, construction, transport and agriculture with a growing number of firms in the light industrial sector.
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Freight business includes transport of bulk mineral commodities, including iron ore, agricultural products, mining and industrial inputs and general freight throughout Queensland and Western Australia.
Yet falling transport costs have made this centripetal force less important over the past half-century, leaving many industrial cities, like Detroit, in deep trouble.
And although total industrial production went up by a more modest 5%, it exploded in industries with heavy foreign investment: transport production went up by 45%, for example, fuelled by the half-million cars built by Volkswagen-owned Skoda (no relation of Skoda Plzen).
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