It is choked with exemptions, preferences, credits, subsidies, special-interest favors, phase-ins, phase-outs and grandfather clauses.
Based on these results and observations, a model of glacier evolution is proposed, involving an adjustment phase, thinning phase, areal-retreat phase, and fragmentation phase.
So I think we are approaching what we hope is the next phase in the Gulf, understanding that that phase -- that next phase is likely to take many years.
He compared the pain-only phase with the pain-plus-placebo phase.
The book is a behind-the-scenes look at Netscape -- from the lightbulb-over-the-head phase, through the tense all-nighter development phase, to initial public offering on Nasdaq and ultimate success.
The bill features a three-year phase-in with 99% of employers required to use the system within two years.
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The federal minimum wage was last increased in 2009 as part of a three-step phase-in that became law in 2007.
The Wallabies doubled their lead from a clinically executed midfield line-out phase - Ashley-Cooper hitting the line at pace, bursting through unusually meek resistance from Carter and Nonu before neatly stepping inside Cowan.
At the time, some on Wall Street complained that he was passing up a potential shortcut to approval by not conducting midsized trials, or so-called phase-II trials (the second of three usual phases of trials).
Instead, Genta skipped directly to large-scale "phase-III" trials comparing Genasense to standard chemotherapy on many hundreds of patients in an all-or-nothing bet to prove the drug worked.
If the U.S. doesn't deliver, there is a clause in the agreement that states the Open Skies treaty -- phase I included -- can be torn up.
This year, when Tularik prepared to move into late-stage, or phase-III, trials for T67, it decided that it would make more sense to use a higher dose of the chemical in the liver cancer patients.
The currently ongoing TG-1101 Phase 1 trial in NHL patients will have data in mid-2013, and begin to enroll Phase 2 part patients, as well, with more data expected at the ASH conference in 2013, says the analyst.
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These plans -- the tax also -- there's a phase-in period of five years for this tax, as well.
Any realistic, practical plan to limit tax expenditure cuts to a high-income group would require a phase-in of the cuts or other accommodations, which would add to marginal tax rates, reduce the potential revenue gain, and make the resulting tax change more regressive.
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But it operates as a tax-rate hike for those in the phase-out range, discouraging work, saving and investment.
But Philips and Sony were only willing to rejoin if the forum used more of their technology possibly even Sony's magneto-optical recording method instead of Matsushita's phase-change design.
The new rule helps donors make large contributions without worrying about hitting percentage limits on their allowable yearly deductions, and it also helps high-income donors, who are subject to the phase-out of itemized deductions.
And, because myriad Dodd-Frank rules remain unwritten and banks are facing the phase-in of new Basel III standards, to increase profits, banks can either make a riskier loan in an uncertain regulatory environment, or cool their heels and collect a small but risk-free return.
The speculative story was that emerging market economies are in a long-run phase of rapid catch-up with the West unencumbered by all the toxic waste of the bubble and bust of the previous decade which now mean the advanced economies will be ailing for a long time to come.
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As detailed in the recently released 2010 Sustainability Report, the company has taken on various eco-initiatives, including an aggressive (and early) phase-out of incandescent light bulbs, the installation of solar panels on numerous U.S. stores, and the introduction of the IKEA Product Sustainability Scorecard.
The antiviral medications Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and Relenza (zanamivir) can reduce the severity of symptoms and the length of illness, but the drug has to be taken within 48 hours of the first appearance of symptoms -- you know, the "I will not get sick" phase -- to be most effective.
Objective Analysis continues to call for depressed pricing through the first half of 2013, but the industry has moved from its cyclical phase of price collapse to a phase of cost-based pricing, which could result in continuing mild month-to-month growth for the interim.
After a three-month checkout phase, day-to-day operations will be turned over to the U.S. Geological Survey, which intends to make images and data free on the Internet as in previous Landsat missions.
Under a tentative peace deal, al-Bashir agreed in November to a three-phase U.N. plan to strengthen the overstretched, 7, 000-strong African Union force in Darfur.
We are currently in a not-so-cold phase of an ice age - The Quaternary Ice Age.
The 22-year-old, from Renfrewshire, had been competing in the cross-country phase of the prestigious four-star event aboard her grey gelding McFly.
Even the advanced two-stage focusing system has made its way from the T4i, which utilizes both phase-difference and contrast AF in order to achieve focus more efficiently when capturing video.
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The FAA already has ordered immediate cockpit security improvements, and the administration's proposal envisions additional short-term steps, such as security bars and other access barriers, during the phase-in period for the fortified doors.
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