Given the first two bills are pretty chewy, I doubt there will be much time left for Mark Hendrick's International Development (Official Development Assistance Target) Bill, still less for Barbara Keeley's Social Care (Local Sufficiency) and Identification of Carers Bill or Douglas Carswell's European Communities Act 1972 (Repeal) Bill, or the considerable number of other bills on the order paper.

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AMD, with a research-and-development budget less than 15% of Intel's, may actually be out-innovating it.

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If anything, the moundster's task is less a grind these days thanks to the development of the art of relief pitching.

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Fiat might be in less trouble today had it shared Merloni's enthusiasm for research and development.

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Its development costs are not much less than the firm's total asset value.

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The scheme's founders promise that film-makers will be free to approach the development process in a less conventional manner than is the norm.

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Even less tractable is Russia's territorial dispute with Japan, the obvious country to open up the Russian east for development.

ECONOMIST: Russia does not exactly soar in its Asian backyard

Poland, one of the EU's less-affluent members, has been outspoken in its opposition to the measure, which it said could hamper development.

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It was revealed on Tuesday the first housing development on the Olympic Park will have less affordable homes than the 35% required under the mayor's own policy for the site and for London as a whole.

BBC: Drop in London's affordable homes build in 2012