"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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The article (hat tip to Drug and Device Law for bringing it to my attention) offers a fascinating tour through a little-scrutinized arm of the legal industry in which lawyers with little or no courtroom experience use advertising to draw in unsophisticated clients and process their claims at industrial levels of efficiency.
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Already, American car companies are producing electric vehicles that use little or no gas.
This is why many view the initiation of a stock repurchase program as confirmation that a firm has no better or more productive use of their cash.
No overstaffing, no girlfriends on the payroll as 'sales secretaries' or 'reservations managers, ' no letting your salaried g.m. use it as a jobs program for her relatives or 'professional colleagues, ' no overloading the hotel with extra salaried management-level employees so we'll have bench strength waiting in the wings if we sign another hotel.
He said that this program would require no great national funding or use of local resources.
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And, that the U.S. has little or no knowledge as to whether to use a typical name.
Because I wanted to keep my feet on English soil, I had decided to use no buses or underground transportation during my visit.
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Unlike conventional monitors, LED-backlit displays contain few or no environmentally hazardous substances, such as mercury or lead, and use about 40 percent less energy.
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All too often in business and in personal relationships, there is a chance we can be easily discarded when we are no longer of value or use to anyone.
Critics, including government ministers and MPs, became convinced the suggested move had been devised entirely for the convenience of the banks, with little or no consideration for the impact on people who still needed or wanted to use cheques.
But people who use the Microsoft browser will in no way, through the use of that browser or the Windows platform, be subject to any type of transaction fee.
Only boring people with no sense of invention or enterprise would use them.
But the avid moved with the times instead of lamenting that they could no longer use a tool or a skills.
Pistorius had no desire to use alcohol or illegal drugs, they added.
There was no significant relearning about layout or use of the machine.
"We thought it would be better to give him a run-out because it's no use for the player or for either of the clubs involved in this situation, " Smith added.
"No matter how lofty his goals, they are easily tarnished if he or his people use such shabby means to reach them, " opined no less a pro-Spitzer publication than The New York Times.
The person or corporation building the wind farm may have no use for tax credits, but other taxpayers do.
Most people who say this have no real knowledge of correlation or know to use it to select asset classes.
The phone's clock is continually updated to within a second's accuracy, so I no longer use my bedside clock or wristwatch.
Whatever happens, no one is going to trust or use Cypriot banks.
"We offer excess and surplus equipment on an 'as is, where is' basis, with no express or implied warranties for fitness of use, " Chamberlin said.
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This would be a mistake, for unless consumers see fluctuations in prices (especially at peak times), they have no incentive to conserve power or shift their use off-peak.
Touch is designed to be simple to use with no need for groups or circles.
In this case of rare earths and dual-use magnet technology, no quick or easy resolution is likely.
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People are free to use the currency or not, and no government permission is needed to launch it.
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Also show are agricultural land use and land surfaces with little or no plant cover - such as bare ground, urban areas and permanent snow and ice.
In November, the two companies amended their agreement so that Zynga will no longer have to display Facebook ads or use Facebook payments on its own Zynga.com properties.
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