And Shell plausibly argues that Alaska's melting ice will make its operations more difficult to plan by forcing it to prepare for a wider range of conditions.

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Ryan, by forcing Republicans to embrace his budget plan, has helped shape this debate.

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They are forcing supporters of the background check plan to win 60 of the Senate's 100 votes, a high hurdle.

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That pressure, combined with price cuts from Intel that forced AMD to follow suit, has bruised the upstart, forcing multiple earning warnings and a restructuring plan.

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In the Senate, the leadership plan does not ensure access to specialists, does not prevent the health care plans that are forcing you to change doctors in mid-treatment, does not give you adequate recourse if your health plan fails to provide adequate care.

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But it also gave Republicans the ability to put several centrist Democratic senators on the spot, forcing those Democrats to vote for a politically contentious plan that raises taxes on certain Americans.

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The IRS, he says, was forcing him to award dividends within the old employee stock ownership plan in proportion to an individual's ownership in the company, thus excessively rewarding longtime employees at the expense of newer ones.

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By forcing states to pay 100 percent of Medicaid cost increases at the margin, this plan is likely to achieve some restraint in the growth of total Medicaid spending.

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It reasoned that the doctrine prohibits Congress from requiring states to take affirmative actions to implement a federal regulatory plan, and distinguishes that type of plan from PASPA, which restricts action (in the form of sports gambling) instead of forcing action by the State of New Jersey.

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