"We are urging the government and beach managers to adopt a mandatory national scheme to provide permanent public information about storm pollution on every bathing beach, " said Mr Bell.
Along with mandatory national standards, the Institute of Medicine is recommending voluntary reductions by the food industry and urging government agencies such as the U.S. Department of Agriculture to revise and update nutrition labels.
When banks become members of the Federal Reserve System, which is mandatory for national banks and voluntary for state banks, they have to purchase stock in their local Federal Reserve Bank equal to six percent of their own capital and surplus.
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Even the National Academy of Arbitrators opposes mandatory plans, and now the courts are finding that some company plans are unfair.
Since people are now free to live and work where they want, one presumes participation in a National Service Program would be mandatory under the threat of a prison sentence.
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Sweden has made mandatory by law and national curriculum the teaching and learning of sustainable development at various levels within the education system.
Under some democratic governments, civic participation means that citizens are required to serve on juries, or give mandatory military or civilian national service for a period of time.
The furloughs had been expected to continue through the summer tourist season but will now end June 1, because the agency was able to find other savings to offset mandatory cuts, the National Park Service said Friday.
To start with, the House of Representatives began watering down the mandatory background checks in ways that the National Rifle Association approved of.
Gaffney, Jr. at a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday make clear, U.S. national security may be jeopardized in numerous ways by mandatory near-term reductions in fossil fuel consumption.
Before that, Calzaghe will defend his WBO super-middleweight title for the 14th time against mandatory challenger Mger Mkrtchyan at the Wales National Ice Rink in Cardiff on 6 December.
It was not until the election of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a soccer mad Corinthians fan, that the political will existed to reform the country's national obsession -- legislation followed in 2003 with mandatory relegation being introduced for the first time.
And if we do try again to adopt a national long-term care insurance system, should it be mandatory or voluntary?
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Its decision was based hardly at all on the Bible and mostly on the political realities of the time: the actual presence in mandatory Palestine in the 1940s of two peoples whose equally authentic national aspirations seemed impossible to fulfil except by partition.
These initiatives are under the supervision of national institutions or authorities which shall work for the strengthening of the enforcement system of mandatory building codes, protecting critical facilities such as schools, hospitals and historic buildings, and promoting the development of more affordable retrofitting techniques and the use of available seismic isolation or energy dissipation techniques.
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