Besides the obvious paper-saving measures, iTravel could help skip key parts of the airport security line by providing passport information, a fingerprint or anything else screeners might want to see while we'd otherwise be juggling our suitcases.
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However, wrapping such measures in green paper and presenting them as anti-global-warming strategies might help their acceptance.
Or to put it another way, for all the UK government's pre-emptive austerity measures, on paper the fiscal position of the UK is worse than for Italy and for Spain.
Last year the government published a Public Health White Paper which proposed a series of measures to encourage people to adopt healthier lifestyles.
Even without these measures, the white paper may get pulled apart.
The paper calls for a series of measures to improve the financial position of the colleges, including better funding per student, a VAT exemption and an insurance rebate.
GPs, incentives for retiring ones to stay on, and measures to cut doctors' paper-work.
The green paper talks cautiously of exploring whether tax measures could help make the sector work better.
The white paper will also propose a series of measures such as priority crossings to make walking and cycling safer and easier.
Rahmsdorf points to a paper written by colleagues of his that used measures of how sediments build up in salt marshes in North Carolina and surveys of what type of microscopic shells could be found in them.
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The result is important because governments were encouraged by the original paper to take drastic steps, such as severe austerity measures, to avoid borrowing any more money once their borrowing reached 90% of annual output.
The spread between French and German 10 year paper rose 5 basis point to 106bps basis points after the measures were unveiled.
Its discussion paper has outlined possibilities where money could be saved and the consortium has claimed its measures could safeguard "up to 6, 000 NHS jobs".
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The paper said U.S. fiscal policies had helped the recovery but the tax measures appeared to have only modestly shifted the tax burden from income to consumption.
That said, today's banking White Paper from the Treasury, which translates Vickers into firm policy, contains all sorts of other measures to limit the exposure of taxpayers to our banks - such as ring-fencing retail operations, so-called resolution procedures for breaking up banks in a crisis, and forcing banks to hold more debt able to absorb the losses that are generated when things go horribly wrong.
The pooling of foreign-exchange reserves are contingency measures aimed at containing crises such as the one roiling the eurozone, analysts told the paper.
Of course we want things that make parents much more responsible and if this is part of a package of those sort of measures then let's see what they are but not a briefing out of a Sunday paper, it's so cynical.
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