Restrict the franchise to lessen conflicts of interest regarding state employees, lobbyists, contractors, etc.
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For years, Vermont officials have highlighted the importance of the state's relationship with Quebec, and all the points in the document have been issues of interest to the state and the province for years.
The Obama transition team has been exploring Bill Clinton's worldwide financial activities and his charity work to see if there might be potential conflicts of interest if his wife becomes secretary of state.
Another topic of interest for attendees will likely be the state of the scrap supplies and hedging opportunities.
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His interest in the state of our prisons stems from both a pragmatic view of justice and a deep humanitarian streak.
Anyway, after Mr. Lew had left NYU to work at Citi, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo charged in 2007 that the school's payments from Citi had not been adequately disclosed to students and that the school's policy toward Citi created a conflict of interest and violated state laws.
Not surprisingly, in a poll stretching back eight months, it turns out that the level of voter interest closely paralleled the relative importance of a state's primary or caucuses in the nominating process.
Expect the bill to run into intense counter-lobbying from the financial services industry, as well as from the representatives of Delaware and South Dakota, two states that rescinded state laws that capped interest rates in hopes of attracting credit card issuers to set up operations in the state.
Croft was impressed, and he asked her to join him in another ethics fight -this time, a conflict of interest complaint against the state's Republican attorney general.
Over the past year, there has been one child death and many injuries from swallowing small magnets in magnetic building toys and jewelry, according to U.S. PIRG, a federation of state consumer interest groups.
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The money is to come in the form of low-interest loans from state-owned banks, supplemented by capital from foreign investors and other sources.
The deal would resolve a lengthy dispute between regulators and the company that has drawn interest from state legislators, members of Congress, environmental advocates, maritime history buffs and even a rival ferry service.
As of yesterday, the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is requiring enhanced screening for passengers flying into the United States from, or flying through, nations on our list of state sponsors of terrorism, or other countries of interest.
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In Virginia, Mark Warner, the new Democratic governor, has renewed an old argument by tussling with the governing board installed by his Republican predecessor at the Housing Development Authority, which gives low-interest loans to help residents of the state buy houses.
Of course what comes next in their State Capitol is a boatload of special interest lobbyists, legislative conflicts, and legal hurdles.
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Even now, much of state revenues go to interest payments, as much as half in Indonesia.
In the last six or seven months there has been a lot of interest from foreign investors in buying state assets.
This interest in Britain's future head of state has turned into a frantic scramble to jump on any nugget of information that may provide clues as to the baby's gender.
The disposition of the partnership interest itself is a sale of an intangible asset, which sources to the state of domicile or at least it did in 2005.
While of great interest to New York practitioners, the case is of limited use elsewhere, as State law dictates property rights.
One idea being bandied about entails replacing the tax exclusion for interest on state and local bonds with a direct subsidy to the issuer of 15% for the interest paid on those bonds.
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The importance of downstream metrics should also be of interest to politicians at the national, state and local levels.
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Instead, there is a misty-eyed alignment of the state with the public interest.
For the first time, the debate was not about moral imperatives, but plain national interest: the threat of Congo becoming another failed state.
As usual, there's panel discussions, symposiums about the state of the economy and interest rate policies and all the topics that economists get excited about.
"I see no scope for lowering interest rates, " Pratip Chaudhuri, chairman of State Bank of India, the country's largest bank by assets, said at a separate press conference.
He made a point, in his public pronouncements, of describing Israel as the Jewish state, but there is plainly no interest on the American side in seeing this issue of nomenclature become a big obstacle between Israelis and Palestinians.
Too busy achieving, even the heroic achievers fail to act in their self-interest whereby they seek to limit the growth of the state.
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They include the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance, the mortgage interest deduction, tax-free interest on state and local bonds, and dozens of others.
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