The Australian Greens, and some Labor parliamentarians, want a public-interest test to govern changes in media ownership.
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It would also expose the allocation of public funds to a public-interest test (instead of the prevalent one, based on bureaucratic self-interest).
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Shadow culture secretary Ivan Lewis said the government should introduce a wider public interest test and allow regulators to apply a fit and proper persons test.
But, unlike the United States' supposedly much tougher Freedom of Information Act, most of the exemptions in the British law are subject to a public interest test.
They did ask, however, that stories should be properly researched and checked, that they should be fair, and that, if they risk harming anyone, they should pass a basic public interest test.
The mandate also fails the "compelling government interest" test.
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So far big diagnostics companies have had only lukewarm interest in the test.
The nationalists, as they were called, were only willing to support American overseas intervention when it met a strict test of national interest and didn't involve ceding control to international organizations or coalitions.
"In assessing those recommendations, we will need to test not only whether the proposals are in the financial interest of the Welsh people but also whether they pass the test of enabling an equitable and sustainable financial settlement for the whole of the UK, " Mr Smith said.
"There are a lot of people with a vested interest in the success of the test, " he said.
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It was North Korea that, in 1998, revived American interest in missile defences, by test-firing a long-range, three-stage missile that it sent skimming over the Japanese archipelago.
Goldman has gone back to Facebook several times to test the company's interest in expanding the size of the sale, according to a person close to the matter, though the tone of the requests was informal.
This is subject to a test to establish whether the public interest in openness and transparency in government, particularly in terms of efficiency, effectiveness and holding the organisation to account, could outweigh it.
In the first three months, a modest 50 students signed up, but Kanna remains confident: Nearly 1, 800 families took an assessment test on her portal and indicated interest in ChildU's K-8 classes, which are slated to go live in September.
The measure Schumer is proposing says that in civil and criminal cases, "a judge would have to conduct a balancing test that would weigh the public interest in the free flow of information against the needs of law enforcement, " said Schumer spokesman Brian Fallon.
This invaluable opportunity to test drive a career may be why the interest in internships is at an all-time high.
In the U.S., two people Jeff Bazarian, an emergency room doctor at the University of Rochester, and Damir Janigro at the Cleveland Clinic are using the test as an investigative tool and trying to drum up interest at Roche Diagnostics to apply for FDA approval in 2011.
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They argued, moreover, that a zero-yield, permanent nuclear test ban is manifestly not in the United States' national interest and noted that, given international support for such a treaty, needed changes to either of those key provisions would be unlikely to be accepted by other parties.
The test of that will be twofold: how soon Brazil can cut interest rates (which now start at 40%, while inflation is just 3%) without triggering a fresh run on the real, and whether foreign investors will start to look more favourably at the country.
They are yet to name their squads, with plenty of interest concerning the fitness of Kevin Pietersen, who has been out since the Lord's Test against Australia with Achilles problems.
He said the case for releasing the documents in the public interest was "a very strong one, " as "cabinet needs to be willing to test and challenge robustly proposals put forward".
But he added that there were circumstances in which a police officer could claim a legitimate defence of acting in the public interest - and it would be for the jury to decide whether Casburn's actions met that test.
On two measures of keen interest to outsiders it probably cannot act: allowing foreigners to enter the insurance market and signing the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
If no adjustments are needed to the asset share, we test how this policy will perform in the future based on appropriate mortality and expenses, and interest crediting that is compared with an in-force illustration for the policy.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
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