• In the UK, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has licensed a number of tightly-controlled research projects into mitochondrial diseases.

    BBC: Genetic advance raises IVF hopes

  • As Jardine Fleming, a Hong Kong stockbroker, points out, the creation of red chips is merely a continuation of a trend that began in the early 1970s with a big increase in the number of listed companies controlled by Hong Kong Chinese families.

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  • Democrats controlled their largest number of state legislatures after the post-Watergate election of 1974.

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  • Mendes Junior projects in Iraq included the constructions of the Baghdad-Al Qaim-Akashat railway, the Iraq Expressway Number One (the largest controlled-access highway in the Middle East) and a pumping station on the Euphrates River.

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  • The Conservative-controlled council said the number of children being enrolled had declined over three years.

    BBC: Two small schools in Somerset at risk of closure

  • They statistically controlled for a wide number of other potential risk factors, such as alcohol consumption, calorie intake, activity levels, and family history of cancer.

    BBC: Red meat: What is a 13% increase in the risk of death?

  • He said that, despite the creation of the new Scottish Parliament, Westminster remained important because of the number of powers which were still controlled from London.

    BBC: SNP playing for dream victory

  • In South-East Asia, for instance, most business is still controlled by a small number of ethnic-Chinese tycoons, who cultivate close ties to local governments and to each other.

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  • In addition, substantial amounts of national wealth remain concentrated in conglomerates controlled by a small number of powerful families, something that concerns policy makers as senior as the governor of the Bank of Israel.

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  • India says there was also a marked drop in the number of militants infiltrating from Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

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  • He said the next step is to attempt controlled trials in a larger number of patients who need trachea transplants.

    WSJ: Scientists Implant Lab-Made Trachea Into Toddler

  • There are still a number of policy areas that are completely controlled by the British government, including constitutional affairs, defence, and foreign affairs.

    BBC: Democracy Live site links

  • The number of Americans involved in abuse of controlled prescription substances has more than doubled over the past decade or so, to nearly 17 million.

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  • The game is based in a classroom where there are a number of activities going on that can be controlled by the student if he focuses on that area.

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  • Although universities have been given limited freedom to set their own fees, they remain tightly controlled by Canberra bureaucrats: the number of places they may offer in every discipline is set centrally.

    ECONOMIST: The limits to growth

  • Between 1995 and 2001 the number of state-owned and state-controlled enterprises fell by nearly two-thirds, from 1.2m to 468, 000, and the proportion of urban workers employed in the state sector fell by nearly half, from 59% to 32%.

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  • While there are millions of gamers who play FIFA 11, a growing number of consumers around the globe are playing motion-controlled games on Wii and PlayStation Move.

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  • For instance, any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted, and sentenced, thereby potentially reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them.

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  • Another good omen for Bosnia's international protectors is that the number of people reclaiming their old homes, in areas now controlled by a rival ethnic group, has doubled in each of the past four years.

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  • The company, which has made a number of job cuts, said costs continued to be "tightly controlled" and it expected "further cost savings" would be achieved this year.

    BBC: Advertising slump for Johnston Press

  • This flight was important for a number of reasons, but in no small part because it represented the first controlled, sustained flight complete with human-powered takeoff.

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  • Floating in a life raft near the vessel were DeGeorge, Paul Ebeling--who had been with DeGeorge when boat number two sank in 1976 and was now the chief executive of a DeGeorge-controlled company--and a third man, Gabriel Falco.

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  • The number of vacancies today -- 86 -- is less than it was when Republicans controlled the White House and Democrats controlled the Senate: 108 in 1991, 114 in 1992.

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  • More within the realm of possibility are the more conventional oil and gas resources on, according to Mulva, 2.4 billion acres controlled by the federal government (I haven't fact-checked that number, but it feels high).

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  • The Lib Dems have lost almost half their councillors whose seats were up for grabs but the Conservatives, who already controlled more councils than all the other parties put together, have increased their number of councillors and gained control of two councils.

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