Over the years, there has been considerable research showing that humans have the ability to detect emotional and physical states with their noses, even though they may not be consciously aware of what they are sensing.
For example, in the United States physical gold (including gold held in ETFs) is generally considered to be a collectible, which is taxed at 28 percent, rather than the 15 percent levied on most financial securities.
Along with that carrot, the states are hoping for a stick: authority from Congress to force catalog and Internet merchants without physical presence in their states to sign up to collect simplified taxes.
They probe and analyze from every angle until they discover how to best unveil the psychological, physical, and spiritual states that a great piece of music evokes.
To do so, Amazon will rapidly and dramatically expand its network of distribution facilities, which ensures physical presence in those states and makes the Amazon tax in those states irrelevant to it.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) states that physical inactivity is the main cause for 21-25 percent of colon and breast cancer, 27 percent of cases of diabetes, and up to 30 percent of cases of ischemic heart disease.
This attitude of denying reality will eventually have negative consequences for the physical security of the United States and the West as a whole.
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Such capabilities concentrated in the hands of undemocratic regimes pose the only real threat to the physical security of the United States and its allies.
But U.S. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger said Sunday that the United States has "physical evidence" that the factory was manufacturing a chemical used to make deadly VX nerve gas.
The Department of Energy is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
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The DOE Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time.
Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine is one of the most successful pieces of social and physical engineering in the United States, and it is and has always been a joint public-private effort.
But they give no quarter on the expensive physical security features and suggest that states deal with privacy concerns on their own.
Like most online retailers, Amazon has long said it would collect state and local sales taxes only on purchases from residents of states where Amazon has physical retail operations.
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Admittedly, as an online outfit Amazon does not pay sales tax in American states where it has no physical presence.
And in America online merchants avoid charging sales tax in some states by neither having a physical presence nor hiring staff there.
State tax officials have been gunning for Amazon for years due to its huge e-commerce revenues and strategic efforts to limit the number of states where it had a physical presence.
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Previously, stores were only required to collect sales tax on goods shipped to states where they have a physical presence, however now state governments would obtain the ability to collect an Internet sales tax from businesses headquartered outside of their respective state borders.
An organ of ISNA, the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) has physical control of most mosques in the United States.
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But Amazon has had some success hiding behind a 1992 Supreme Court decision that prohibits states from taxing retailers without a physical presence in that state.
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Over the years, there have been repeated rumors about Amazon.com making an offer for the company, but the stumbling block analysts always have raised is that the many locations that distribute DVDs for Netflix would force Amazon to assess sales taxes on customers in states where they previously had no physical presence.
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Like many states, Texas requires companies with a physical presence there to collect sales tax.
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At a moment inconvenient to the United States, such access could translate into physical or other obstacles to our use of such waterways.
The real winners of the global economy have turned out to be not the creative types or the data junkies, but the material boys: countries, states and companies that have perfected the art of physical production in agriculture, energy and, remarkably, manufacturing.
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Lewis proposes a renewed focus on cybercrime, particularly to make states responsible for criminal acts by individuals resident within their physical boundaries.
The company has grown its headcount by 46% over the past three years having hired 1, 489 people entirely in the U.S. Most of those are certified prosthetists and orthotists, and occupational and physical therapists at its nationwide network of more than 700 clinics in 45 states and D.
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And it could become the next major battleground in employment law as a growing number of states consider legislation that would let workers sue for harassment that causes physical or emotional harm.
We have teamed up with one of the most respected cyber-universities in the United States to develop a program to integrate the two sciences (cyber and physical security) into an environment similar to that of Space Camp at the Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Under current law, states can only require stores to collect sales taxes if the store has a physical presence in the state.
States like Hawaii and West Virginia are actually using DDR as part of their physical education programs to fight obesity in schools.
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