But only when there were US companies able to take a good portion of that now newly legal market.

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In other words, an industry-wide standard for returns is a good idea, but it faces a serious uphill legal battle and only resolves a small portion of the problem over digital ownership.

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Probably not all of the 95% trade imbalance is legal corporate tax evasion, but certainly some portion of that intra-firm trade is.

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It includes older people who would like to work but for whom working involves loss of some portion of their benefits, younger people, legal immigrants, part-time workers and others who have taken themselves out of the work force.

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The fact that the scheme would be strictly time limited, and involve only a portion of each country's debt, was more likely to make it legal in the eyes of Germany's constitutional court.

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Pursuant to U.S. GAAP, a portion of the proceeds will be accounted for and attributed to the settlement of prior legal claims.

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The sect leader refused to speak during the sentencing portion of the trial, with a defence lawyer telling the judge his client had instructed his legal team not to speak for him.

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"The difficulty with counterfeiting is you never know where you really stand U.S. Customs examines only a small portion of the goods entering the country, " said Joe Nauman, executive vice president for corporate and legal affairs at Acushnet, which makes Titleist balls and clubs and FootJoy shoes.

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