It is renegotiating its decades-old agreement with Indonesia's government, which wants Freeport to reduce ownership and pay more royalties, reflecting new rules allowing foreign companies a maximum 49% stake in local operations.

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"We know the coming years will not be any easier, but this budget will help the force to maintain the reduction in crime and ensure we concentrate maximum effort on what matters to local people, " he said.

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They propose, for example, to scrap Labour's identity-card scheme, introduce the election of local police chiefs and repeal the 42-day maximum for detaining terrorists before they are charged (if there is no new evidence that the 42-day limit is needed, Mr Cameron says circumspectly).

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The good news is that the hills are not-that-high and your small group (maximum 14) will be accompanied by professional local cyclist-guide, as well as a support car for those too pooped to pump.

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Indeed, when reaching out to local communities, the Darden Foundation relies on employee engagement for maximum results.

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To get the maximum bang for its cash and also to satisfy local ownership rules, Telefonica has built its Latin American empire mostly through consortia that it leads but only partly owns.

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ECoS enables local autonomous control decisions to be made in nearly real time for maximum reliability, survivability, and responsiveness of the electric grid.

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If state and local officials had a fixed amount of dollars to spend, along with maximum flexibility in how to spend these dollars so long as they were tied to the purpose of disaster recovery or indigent medical assistance, this would greatly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of both Medicaid and national disaster recovery efforts.

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