Michael Woloz, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade, said the fleet owners who make up his organization do not begrudge drivers a raise but will suffer because of another measure, approved on a 5-4 vote, to eliminate a 5% charge that fleets and garages can currently levy on drivers for the cost of processing credit-card transactions.

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HMOs as well as the trade group AHIP, when explaining why they must raise rates next year, make a bunch of excuses.

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Under the rules for the FPC, devised by the chancellor, it can and will make a declaration that the banks as a group have to raise a specific amount of new capital.

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But sending Bolton to the United Nations without the backing of the Senate would make him a temporary fill-in ambassador, raise questions about his authority and possibly diminish his standing.

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Yet the general's release would make it harder still for Mr Lavin to win them over, since it would raise the issue of a trial in Chile.

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She will make her first campaign appearance on behalf of her former mentor in Charleston to help raise money for Sanford during a fundraiser at a home on the city's famous Battery.

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