• Midlake has been working on The Courage of Others for a few years now, even scrapping it all entirely at one point.

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  • But that is an argument for scrapping it, rather than merely tinkering.

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  • The EU plans to phase out milk quotas by 2015 and to limit market intervention, with a view to scrapping it in the long term.

    BBC: EU to boost aid for dairy farms

  • The company was also one of four contractors bidding to take over some services for Surrey Police, but the region's police authority voted on Thursday to suspend the plan - and is now thinking of scrapping it entirely.

    BBC: Olympics security not compromised, Theresa May says

  • The National Health Service is still with us, but now there is a lot of argument about how it will be paid for, as we all live longer and money is tighter, but nobody from any political party would dare to talk about scrapping it.

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  • The government said it was basically scrapping the bailout plan it announced with some fanfare two months ago and starting over.

    NPR: U.S. Boosts AIG Bailout Package

  • Stoke-on-Trent City Council is among those scrapping loans as it does not have the power to recoup them from benefits.

    BBC: Benefits changes: Warnings as crisis loans scrapped

  • It can also pinpoint who owns them and give guidance on whether the problem can be fixed by licensing the code--or by scrapping and rewriting it.

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  • The service will replace NHS Direct, which the government announced it was scrapping last year.

    BBC: New non-emergency health phone number to launch

  • It proposed scrapping a system introduced under former president Nicolas Sarkozy that imposes penalties and a ban on internet connection for those guilty of illegal downloading.

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  • Last year it demanded the scrapping of Turkish-language news bulletins on public radio and television.

    ECONOMIST: Bulgaria and its Turks

  • It would mean scrapping the expensive identity card system and having a proper border police, in this country, instead.

    BBC: William Hague

  • But last June the British Medical Association said MPs should consider scrapping the telephone service, saying it was not cost-effective.

    BBC: New non-emergency health phone number to launch

  • It has also recommended scrapping the position of senator and creating six big constituencies each electing seven seats in the States.

    BBC: Jersey Electoral Commission recommends smaller States

  • Marco Biagi, the SNP MSP for Edinburgh Central, said he had serious doubts about the figures for both scrapping the scheme and for completing it.

    BBC: Scrapping Edinburgh trams would cost ?750m

  • "I'm clear that scrapping the satisfactory judgement and replacing it with 'requires improvement' is injecting a sense of urgency in both schools and local authorities, " he said.

    BBC: Ofsted: Latest school checks show improvement

  • After striking out with its "Thrive" Android tablets and then coming up a bit short with the "Excite" line, the company is completely scrapping its tablet lineup and replacing it with three new models.

    ENGADGET

  • That means scrapping the House of Lords and replacing it with a new, elected second chamber.

    BBC: How would you change Parliament?

  • Although General Basbug endorsed the scrapping of Emasya, he has made it clear that this last safeguard must remain untouched.

    ECONOMIST: The Turkish army

  • It is a pity they cannot stop scrapping and accept this.

    ECONOMIST: Discord across the Malacca strait

  • Proposing the scrapping of the present system, Ms Driver suggested that it should be replaced by a standard payment to schools for all children of a similar age, wherever they lived in England and Wales.

    BBC: Fairer funding call for schools

  • Dresdner is proud of its investment-banking business: arguments over the latter's future led to the scrapping of the deal with Deutsche, and since then it has bought Wasserstein Perella, an American firm, to bring in new expertise.

    ECONOMIST: The big one?

  • The coalition has also announced a number of policies it says will strengthen civil liberties such as scrapping ID cards, extension of the Freedom of Information Act, more protections for the DNA database, protecting trial by jury and regulating CCTV.

    BBC: Select Committee

  • No Republican, not even Ron Paul, is going beyond the status quo to insist that top marginal tax rates must be cut by at least a third (ideally scrapping the current income-tax system altogether and replacing it with a pro-growth, low-single-rate tax system that does not punish saving, investing and entrepreneurial risk-taking as the current progressive income tax does).

    FORBES: Memo To The President: We Can't Tax, Spend And Print Our Way To Prosperity

  • Germany introduced laws to make it easier to establish joint-stock companies, scrapping ancient regulations, because so many German companies were taking advantage of the single European market and incorporating in Britain.

    ECONOMIST: A World Bank report makes surprisingly cheerful reading

  • As you know, George Osborne is scrapping the 50% top rate of tax, and replacing it with a 45% rate, because he was informed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs that there was massive avoidance of the new top rate, such that the yield from the higher rate was trivial.

    BBC: More than 70% of high earners paid 50% tax rate

  • British politicians, for instance, sometimes talk about scrapping their country's rule on resident non-domiciles because it allows wealthy people domiciled abroad, often in tax havens, to live in Britain tax-free.

    ECONOMIST: The less obvious uses of tax havens

  • It says its members' alternative suggestions for saving money include scrapping the internal market in the NHS and bringing outsourced services such as bin collection and street cleaning back under public control.

    BBC: Unions urge different approach as cuts debate continues

  • Call it simplistic, but the single greatest fix for the banks would be a scrapping of all regulations that have never worked to begin with, followed by a one line law: If you fail, we will not cushion your failure.

    FORBES: Book Review: John Allison's The Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure

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