• The demand for gasoline is only going to rise, with New York's subway system still out of commission -- meaning more people are forced to travel by car -- and a forecast of cold weather for New York and New Jersey this weekend.

    CNN: Long gas lines test patience of storm-struck residents

  • His comments follow the publication of an interim report into out-of-hours GP care by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), prompted by Mr Gray's death, which found primary care trusts may be failing to spot patient safety issues because of a lack of scrutiny.

    BBC: 'Tighten' vetting of out-of-hours GP services

  • The concept of automatically recruiting staff to pension schemes - but with the possibility of staff then opting out - was first suggested by Lord Turner's Pension Commission in 2005.

    BBC: Pensions auto-enrolment attracts cautious welcome

  • He said the decision to swap out some previously commission-free ETFs in favor of others was made because the company wanted to offer iShares' "core" category of funds, which includes U.S. and international stocks.

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  • I'm glad to report the commission I served on went out-of-business in 2010.

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  • The poetry and performance art was of a different sort on Saturday morning, when I set out in search of the Idaho Potato Commission's 28-foot-long, 12-foot-wide, 11.5-foot-tall spud.

    WSJ: At the Intersection of Yoko and Idaho

  • For 2008, the state could see its first year-over-year decline since 2001, according to a spokeswoman for Visit Florida, a not-for-profit corporation that carries out the work of the Florida Commission on Tourism.

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  • The defense also plans to point out a previous five-year investigation of Galleon by the Securities and Exchange Commission in which the agency subpoenaed and obtained millions of records from the hedge fund and hours of interviews, including a seven-hour deposition of Rajaratnam in 2007.

    FORBES: Galleon Group Lawyers To Argue Court Should Toss Evidence From Wiretaps

  • And in the 9-11 Commission, we pointed out that every bit of intelligence showed that New York was the epicenter of the targeting of al-Qaeda and every other Islamist group and that we did not have in New York anything approaching the kind of command and control or communications that could deal with that threat.

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  • Historically, the SEC has stayed out of election-related issues, leaving it to lawmakers and the Federal Election Commission to govern corporate participation in the political arena.

    FORBES: SEC's Political Disclosure Proposal Will Improve Corporate Governance

  • The point is that the UK banks' downgrade is an inevitable consequence of government policy to reduce the likelihood that they would be bailed out in a crisis - of which the most conspicuous manifestation has been the Vickers' commission recommendations to put retail banks behind a ring fence and make creditors to banks explicitly liable to losses.

    BBC: If RBS needs capital, taxpayers will suffer

  • Other questions covered in the 45 minute session included the roll-out of broadband in rural areas and the closure of the Press Complaints Commission.

    BBC: Olympics minister slams 'absurd' newborn ticket policy

  • Disk-drive companies were hit hard after key suppliers were knocked out of commission.

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  • The only thing I've seen is a member of parliament who's a member of the national security commission in parliament--he has come out openly and publicly criticizing it.

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  • Another reason is that the politicians have had most of the hard work done for them by Paul van Buitenen, an internal auditor with the commission who turned whistle-blower and handed out a fat dossier of embarrassing allegations last month.

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  • The powerful National Development and Reform Commission wants to see two-thirds of panel makers go out of business.

    FORBES: Sun Sets on China's Solar Industry

  • The government-appointed Election Commission points out that 2, 000 international monitors plus tens of thousands of Pakistani observers will watch the electoral process.

    CNN: Bhutto's death clouds Pakistan campaign

  • The commission says it is aware of this drawback and will lay out long-term solutions after the summer, leaving EU institutions a few years to negotiate a permanent fix.

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  • Also, he is a member of the influential parliamentary commission on banking standards, although his remarks to the Christians in Parliament All Party Parliamentary Group were personal, rather than representing those of the commission (I should perhaps point out that I was the token non-observant Jew on the panel that then responded to the Archbishop's reflections).

    BBC: Should bishops run the banks?

  • Concerns that state money would enable BNP Paribas to finance its proposed acquisition of the Belgian bits of Fortis gave commission officials pause when they first reviewed France's bail-out scheme.

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  • According to the country's election commission, PML-N was confirmed as the winner in 123 constituencies out of the 272, former ruling Pakistan People's Party in 37 and Mr. Khan's PTI in 26.

    WSJ: Pakistan Election Gets a Seal of Approval

  • According to the country's election commission, PML-N was confirmed as the winner in 116 constituencies out of the 235 where the vote count ended, former ruling Pakistan Peoples Party in 27 and Mr. Khan's PTI in 26.

    WSJ: Pakistan Election Gets a Seal of Approval

  • The State of Broadband 2012: Achieving Digital Inclusion for All report evaluates the roll-out of broadband around the world and tracks progress towards achieving the four targets set by the Commission in 2011 for boosting broadband affordability and uptake.

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  • As a result, the commission's chairman, Dr. William Graham, says "nine-out-of-ten Americans would be dead within a year" from starvation, disease or exposure.

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  • Even if the Commission turns out to be right, that would be a very long period of sub-par performance.

    BBC: Eurozone: A very overcast outlook

  • The commission threatened, for instance, to block the government's recent bail-out of Alstom, an engineering group, approving a rescue plan only after France agreed to last-minute changes.

    ECONOMIST: France and Europe

  • Germans, on the other hand, were higher-minded: 30 of their Socialists defied the party and voted to kick the commission out, along with 45 colleagues from the right.

    ECONOMIST: Europe��s political parties

  • Now that the world has gone digital and online, people who want to watch a game that is blacked-out on television no longer beat-down the doors of the cable operators, the leagues, Congress or the Federal Communications Commission.

    FORBES: Cablevision/Fox Fight Is So Last Century

  • He set up the fiscal commission, he laid out a framework, and he brought the Speaker of the House -- or together they came to the brink of a bipartisan compromise that would have been very significant and avoided a lot of this.

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