So why not raise the quota--or better yet--scrap it altogether?
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) wants the government to scrap the test - it says that breaking up families is more damaging than some migrants not speaking English.
Banking authorities opted to delay further liberalization -- but not scrap it.
So it was that in 1968 Labour's Michael Foot - who wanted to scrap the Lords altogether - united with the then Tory Enoch Powell - who wanted it to stay just as it was - and led a coalition which defeated change.
Modern health and safety rules, for example, make it hard to run a scrap-metal business.
FSC-ETI, it will not scrap these until May at the earliest, and will create even more complexity in corporate taxes in the process.
Mr Zapatero will probably scrap his income-tax rebate, or most of it.
If plastics recycling isn't taking off, that's in part because scrap plastic isn't worth much--and it isn't worth much because handling it consumes gobs of labor, energy and other precious resources.
This will make it even more necessary to scrap the seniority-based pay system, because keeping older workers on will be prohibitively expensive.
After spells in the timber trade, the scrap metal business and as a prospector-miner, he found it as a professional hunter organising safaris.
The plan to scrap the Philippines' American-style presidential system, and replace it with a parliamentary one, could provide Mrs Arroyo with a face-saving exit.
You know, if you think about the debate around health care reform, there were some who wanted to scrap the system of private insurance and replace it with government-run care.
G8 meeting in Japan last month, to scrap its missile programme if other countries would provide it with space-launch facilities (ie, rockets it could use for its own purposes).
It follows the government's decision to scrap regional house-building targets.
Yet mini-mills cannot do it all: there is not enough scrap to satisfy all steel demand, and steel made from scrap is not high enough quality for all uses.
In the UK, News Corporation has been under mounting pressure to scrap its bid for a full takeover of TV giant BSkyB - in which it already owns a 39.1% share - since new phone-hacking allegations about the News of the World emerged last week.
FirstGroup said it was "disappointed" with the decision to scrap the multi-billion-pound contract.
Recently his firm began converting scrap silver, whether it is jewelry, flatware or old coins such as pre-1964 U.S. quarters into pure silver.
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The combined effect doesn't just simplify repairs and upgrades -- it lets companies build the exact servers they need without having to scrap other crucial elements in the process.
The drivers tried to downplay the confrontation after arriving in the desert this week, but it's been hard to avoid, with video of the scrap-and-dash being shown all over in promos for the race and replays.
The Blues' victory leaves the Scarlets and Newport Gwent Dragons to scrap it out in the Magners League's final week to avoid a play-off in Italy.
Pfizer's share price plunged after higher-than-expected mortality and side effects reported during a clinical trial led it to scrap a drug it had been developing since 1992.
Ofsted has recently announced plans - that are currently out for consultation -, to introduce no-notice inspections for all schools and to scrap the "satisfactory" rating and replace it with "requires improvement".
The scrap-heap system introduces distortion that the group initially felt was a bad thing, but now it's become their trademark.
Labour say the legislation will make it harder for ordinary people to seek justice because of a decision to scrap no-win, no-fee cases.
In December, the county was directed by Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner to scrap its touch-screen voting system, which had been plagued with problems, and to replace it with optically scanned paper ballots.
So Nynex, hardly the most popular local telephone company in America, knew it was in for a scrap when it recently unveiled a plan to deprive some Manhattanites of their treasured 212 area code--arguably the only local telephone code that is recognised from Tokyo to Tomsk.
Of course, even if you're lucky enough to be a six-foot-four, 300 pound, left-handed Van Valkenburg with five amateur radios, it's unlikely that you'll scrap together enough in scholarships to pay for one year of college tuition, room and board.
It could be the last user-generated vote on the network as Facebook is keen to scrap the system.
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