The lorries and their loads measure up to 144ft (44m) long - just 3ft (1m) short of the minimum permissible width of a professional football pitch.
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Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
Scotland's Parliament came close to adopting a 45p minimum last year (the proposal was voted down), and a much-discussed study in 2008 by academics at Sheffield University thought 50p was the lowest that should be contemplated.
In California alone (as part of a settlement with the State over issues occurring suring the CA energy crisis over a decade ago) NRG has agreed to build and operate infrastructure for at least 200 fast-charging (480 volt) stations, and a minimum 10, 000 level 2 (240 volt) stations in businesses and multi-unit dwellings.
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To qualify, a borrower must be "prime, " with a minimum FICO score of 660, a debt-to-income ratio (excluding mortgage debt) of less than 25% and no current delinquencies, recent bankruptcies or tax liens.
Contrary to the claims of Bernstein and others who support the minimum wage, a higher minimum (other things constant) will decrease employment opportunities for the least-skilled workers.
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To keep inflammation to a minimum, Dr. O'Keefe recommends a restricted-calorie diet (similar to the Mediterranean diet), consisting of fruits and vegetables, lean protein, nuts, vinegar, tea, and fish oil, as well as low to moderate alcohol intake.
However, beginning in 2014, businesses with 50 or more full-time employees (or full-time equivalents) that do not offer affordable health insurance that provides a minimum level of coverage to substantially all of their full-time employees (and their dependents) may be subject to an employer shared responsibility payment if at least one of their full-time employees receives a premium tax credit to purchase coverage in an insurance Marketplace.
If you don't have 1 GB of hard drive space for Descent 3, you'll need a CD-ROM to play the movies (and to access data files on a bare minimum install).
Require a 10-year minimum term for grantor retained annuity trusts (GRATs).
The Association of Greater Manchester Authorities (AGMA) wants to create a by-law to set a minimum price.
Take Bank of America's Minimum Return Eagles (the name, predictably, is a tortured acronym--Equity Appreciation Growth LinkEd Securities).
The panel predicts that by 2100 temperatures will have increased a minimum of two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels regardless of what's agreed in Copenhagen.
New laws allow for zones on virgin sites that range upwards from a minimum of 10 hectares (24 acres) for businesses such as software and bio-technology, to 1, 000 hectares for multi-sector zones that might involve more than one developer and would include residential areas, hospitals, shopping centres and other amenities.
Despite a few exceptions that are tirelessly (and selectively) cited by advocates of a higher minimum wage, the bulk of the evidence -- from scores of studies, using data mainly from the U.S. but also from many other countries -- clearly shows that minimum wages reduceemployment of young, low-skilled people.
There is abundant evidence that a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a 1 to 3 percent decrease in employment of low-skilled workers (using teens as a proxy) in the short run, and to a larger decrease in the long run, along with rising unemployment.
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On the Chicago Board Options Exchange Market Volatility Index (VIX), it seems that most traders are looking for a minimum of 30 to mark a short-term bottom for the market.
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