Smith himself introduced campaign finance legislation in 2008 like the measure the groups are advocating now.
Section 6001 of the bill contains a measure that prevents groups of doctors from investing in new hospitals.
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The next stage of the research will looking at physical similarities between different groups, in which the team will use photographs of people and make 3D models to measure quantitative similarities between related groups.
Business groups welcomed the measure, but others warned it was "too little, too late".
And even some of the conservative religious groups that this measure was clearly aimed at pleasing are saying this is simply a bone being tossed their way.
Approval of the measure is being urged by industry groups and some national corporations, which say the lack of a uniform legal standard on electronic signatures is impeding interstate commerce.
There may be other factors as well: overall poverty, disparity of wealth, the presence and proportion of and relationships among various ethnic groups, and perhaps some measure of social stability like church attendance.
If the measure is put on the ballot, progressive groups expect to mobilize tens of thousands of voters to support the initiative, said Bill Holland, director of the New Jersey Working Families Alliance.
But who can be surprised that blacks and whites each tend to gravitate toward the measure that is most forgiving of their individual groups, that shoves the onus for change off on the other?
Environmental groups held rival media events opposing the measure.
The debt-relief measure, championed by the White House, charity groups and religious and cultural figures from Pope John Paul II to singer Bono of the rock band U2, allows the United States to pay its share under the global Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative to forgive the debts of some 30 Third World countries.
Earlier this month, the court describe the measure as "arbitrary and capricious", after industry groups sued the city.
Conservative anger over the measure helped launch the tea party movement, and conservative groups joined with industry groups to fund a giant public pressure campaign against the legislation.
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But the evidence suggests that large spending by special-interest groups by no means guarantees the passage of a measure.
The Tories have called this measure vindictive, but their natural allies in the countryside pressure groups are happy with it.
Gay rights groups are adamantly seeking the provision be inserted into the measure, but Republicans have warned that could splinter the coalition behind the bill and doom its chances for passage.
"The product has been designed to make it easier to share with one group of your friends while retaining some measure of privacy with respect to your family, coworkers or other groups of friends, " said Peter Eckersley, a senior technologist at privacy-advocacy group Electronic Frontier Foundation, in an email.
Shortly after the immigration compromise was announced, conservative groups and lawmakers made it clear that they would oppose such a measure.
Now it's possible to date and measure those shifts in language, thanks to the Web, the online discussion groups, and all the databases of press stories and broadcast transcripts.
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As it might in Congress: The House leadership, under pressure from moderates and lawmakers in close races back home, promises a vote within a month on a disclosure measure more to its liking -- but it will include disclosure requirements for groups like labor unions and trial lawyers, which they know would be poison pills for Democrats.
The Electoral Commission said this measure tended to have an adverse impact on disadvantaged, marginalised and hard to reach groups.
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Though most U.S. hospitals are tax-exempt entities owned by religious groups, universities or other nonprofits, there is still a Wall Street measure for about 1, 000 hospitals that are investor-owned.
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But banking-industry groups, including the American Bankers Association and the Financial Services Roundtable, oppose the measure, saying it would tempt students to rack up big debt that they won't repay.
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The good news is that half of the 24 industry groups use metrics that most highly correlate to value, and also use TSR as a direct measure of shareholder value.
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It may not measure up to the "language with which God created life", but the better targeting of existing medicines within groups of patients may show us how the hype over personalised medicine could begin to be realised.
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