Nearly two and a half years after being nominated, Ms. Halligan continues to wait for a simple up-or-down vote.
Now, unfortunately, a partisan minority in the Senate has been standing in the way of giving our small businesspeople a simple up-or-down vote on this bill.
For the next 52 years, presidents were able to streamline or consolidate the Executive Branch by submitting a proposal to Congress that was guaranteed a simple up or down vote.
The quest to remake teachers' annual performance grades began in 2010, when the state passed a law requiring districts to jettison systems that allowed principals to judge teachers on a simple up-or-down system that critics considered arbitrary and all but useless.
If a decision we believe should be simple ends up being harder than we expect, we mistakenly think it must actually be important and therefore take even more time to make the decision.
Someone will come up with a simple idea that's looped up and then eventually, once we've got a good beard of rhythmic ideas, then we'll start to throw the rest of the band on top of it.
The answer may be as simple as picking up stakes and moving to another part of the country.
The device itself is great because it's small and about as simple to set up as you could hope for.
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The US, instead of relying upon simple prices raised up by taxation, instead uses a complex mix of regulations and subsidies.
Consumers simply connect to the router with their computer, tablet or smartphone then follow the simple set-up wizard to complete the installation.
Mr. CLARENCE PATTON (Executive Director, National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs): We track everything from simple verbal harassment up to and including murder.
As a volunteer for the architects of the charity Habitat for Humanity, he will help put up simple houses for those who desperately need shelter.
The restaurants originally served up simple snacks, but as the city grew, they began competing for customers by improving the variety and quality of their dishes.
ADM, which the company claims is simple to set up and operate, has been designed to provide half-hourly meter reading data direct to suppliers through secure information gateways.
It was meant as a simple write-up about a research project trying to map the global cross-ownership of public companies and revealed a cluster of 147 firms that dominated the whole.
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Chris notes they are extremely simple to set up.
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The choice for a new contributor was simple: Set up your own blog, and patiently hope you can build audience over a period of years, or join the club and get instant exposure.
Launching on December 2007 as a simple catch-up website, BBC iPlayer has helped pioneer TV on demand by offering audiences the opportunity to watch selected TV programmes for up to 7 days after broadcast.
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The idea behind it while simple, offers up endless fun scenarios for use: from gaming nights with friends -- you'll need a lot of Brix-toting friends, of course, and it'll have to support some type of input -- to family events for pic sharing, and the like.
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Put up a simple windmill on the roof or solar panel, sure, but you might come up with a useful combination by looking at what kit-building cyclists are doing.
Here numerous simple buildings have popped up between homes to serve as places of worship.
"Your husband said I was dressed conservatively, " Ms. McFarland said of her simple black get-up.
Or make up a simple element formed out of atoms of the one kind.
LinkedIn continues to come up with simple yet effective ways to drive user engagement higher.
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Simple things like washing up or going to the loo have become major operations.
In hot springs and undersea vents, simple carbon compounds bubbled up to form amino acids and peptides.
Research by fitness experts has shown that the simple act of getting up helps office employees think better.
We would put up a simple site, create several kits, see if we could get customers, and iterate.
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