One explanation may be that retailers, insulated from fierce competition, have not passed on cost savings.
Under Mr. Reid's leadership, the Senate has not passed a budget resolution in three years.
The findings of Mr Hahn and other cost-benefit analysts in America have not passed unchallenged, however.
But those changes are not passed on indefinitely, like a successful genetic mutation would be.
He had not passed the driving test and was to give up his license.
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More permanent is not the same as indelible, and epigenetic changes are not passed on indefinitely.
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But five years into the war on organised crime, the relevant laws have not passed.
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After all, this is what happens with closed-end funds: Realized portfolio gains are not passed through to shareholders.
Forecasters have warned that the danger of flooding has not passed after heavy rain in much of Scotland.
If this bill is not passed, the ordinance lapses and the new laws will no longer be valid.
Nevertheless, we have to act with caution because I think the crisis has not passed in its entirety.
The Law of Heritage Protection, for example, which mandates the protection of buildings constructed before 1941, was not passed until 2008.
BIS's offer to help rescue South Korea from financial crisis last winter has also not passed unnoticed in Basle.
While they expect an eventual Congressional agreement, if they are not passed, it could depress GDP growth by roughly 0.8 percentage points.
But 78% of the material was not passed to the investigating team.
However, analysts said many mortgage lenders had not passed on the lower borrowing costs, while consumers feared that rates may climb again.
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But Newsnight has contacted five trusts which say they have not passed on the guidelines, and that cakes and biscuits are still available on prescription.
MI6's yellowcake allegation derives from information shared by the intelligence services of two other countries, and not passed on to the Americans.
David Trimble has said he will withdraw his ministers from government, thereby collapsing the powersharing arrangement, if his party's motion is not passed.
Had he not passed away at the tender age of 92 in 1973, Ludwig von Mises would have turned 131 years old today.
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If the measures are not passed, the eurozone has threatened to delay the release of 12bn euros in emergency loans to the country.
General synod voting rules meant that while 324 members were in favour of the change, and just 122 against, it was not passed.
Article 34.1 of the 1978 Vienna Convention on the succession of States in Respect of Treaties has not passed into customary international law.
Should the review team find that data collection is poor or that evidence is not passed on promptly, it may result in further action.
However, the GAO report noted the Iraq government has not passed formal de-Baathification legislation and gave the Iraqis an "unmet" grade on that benchmark.
They have been threatening Washington DC with an effective shutdown if the cuts are not passed, by refusing to raise the federal government's borrowing limit.
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The airport said the man had not passed through security and was in the main international departure terminal at the time, AP news agency reports.
But the legislation was not passed by the House, where it was countered by a concerted lobbying effort by the National Rifle Association and its congressional allies.
The BBC said that the reporters had offered to wait outside while the meeting went on but Mr Jones said that message was not passed to him.
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If Wall Street stopped the mortgage originators and not passed on that crap to investors and Fannie and Freddie much sooner, this crisis could have been abated.
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