Several hundred American troops have been operating at Colombian bases for almost a decade under Plan Colombia, a fairly successful aid scheme under which the United States has provided training and intelligence help against Colombia's drugs and guerrillas.
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Those extra beds would soon be filled: the Tories want stiffer sentencing and an end to the scheme under which some convicts are let out before the end of their sentence.
Servicemen and women, including veterans who have been medically discharged since 2001, will qualify for tickets under the scheme, which will be run by a not-for-profit company, independently of the Conservative Party.
Under the scheme, which was established in 2005, permits for emitting CO2 are distributed under a system of national allocations.
Much of the commentary has focussed on the treatment of former paramilitaries who have been able to benefit from the two-year early release scheme provided under the Good Friday Agreement, and the contrasting fate which awaits any former soldiers or police officers facing charges for crimes committed before 1998.
He scrapped the team's ad agency and its outdated rotunda pricing scheme, under which all tickets on each arena level cost the same, whether for the corners or center ice.
Following the collapse of a third of all American banks in 1930-33, the government set up an insurance scheme under which it guaranteed to repay depositors, up to a certain limit, in the event of bank failure.
He is due to receive another motorbike under the demobilisation scheme, which he will sell, doubtless at a hefty discount, to pay off his debts.
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He attacked the existing scheme, under which some civil servants are entitled to more than six years' salary if they are made redundant, as "completely unaffordable, inherently unfair and in urgent need of reform".
National Century ran a scheme in which it attracted money from investors under the premise that it was loaning it to hospitals and other medical enterprises against the collateral of short-term receivables.
Here's a map of which roads will come under the scheme.
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The US scheme took off in New York under its Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who provided support and resources to the London scheme, which will see the public and private sector and voluntary organisations coordinating community activities.
He said it had become clear that the voluntary registration scheme which had been under consideration would not have provided a "robust solution".
This year the government added a pension scheme to Oportunidades under which it contributes slightly more generously than it does to formal-sector pensions.
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Manufacturers are giving away cartons of milk to highlight the threat to a European Commission subsidy scheme under which primary schools can receive milk at a discounted price.
In 2009, the UK Border Agency launched a pilot scheme under which DNA from asylum seekers would be analysed in an effort to deduce their true nationality and curb bogus asylum claims.
Under the Scottish government's small business bonus scheme, which came into effect in April, many small firms pay no rates at all but the transitional relief for larger companies was scrapped.
Under the scheme, counties will be eligible for payouts for matches in which they field two under-22 and three under-26 players.
Under a scheme of this sort, which some housing experts proposed in 2009, the long-term cost of a housing bailout would have been substantially smaller than its sticker price.
There is a campaign to stop the selling of land at Elliott School in Wandsworth to pay for renovations which were originally planned under the cancelled Building Schools for the Future scheme.
The Releasing Time to Care (RTC) scheme is an example of one of the ways in which the NHS is trying to improve under the new strategy.
Much of the credit for Germany's jobs miracle goes to Kurzarbeit, a scheme under which government hands out subsidies to firms that retain surplus workers, but there is more to it.
Another scheme under which poor families get bursaries on condition their children attend school is only now being spread across the country, and there have been delays in reaching agreements with the local councils who will operate it.
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The scandal was triggered when New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer revealed a scheme under which Nations Funds, advised by Banc of America Capital Management, a unit of Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ), permitted hedge fund Canary Capital to trade mutual fund shares at prices that had already been set at the day's close.
Under one scheme, road stewards were surveying the condition of roads and had identified nearly 90 potholes which needed to be fixed quickly.
However, part of these discussions, which include empty homes expert George Clark, involves a scheme which will see empty properties, many originally set for demolition under Pathfinder, brought back into use over the next three years.
Under Mr Simons' scheme, which is being implemented in Nigeria and Ghana, a scratch-off panel on the packaging reveals a code which can be texted to a special number to verify that the drugs are genuine.
Hundreds more of the 25, 000 Dutch drug addicts might qualify to join a national scheme, which is now under consideration.
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