"This is something that's come up every nine months to a year, " says Matthew Osborne, an analyst at Lazard Capital Markets.

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"I feel like he's come up with something that might actually attract broad enough support that it could be acted on and acted on quickly, because it is narrower, it's focused, and it's right now, " Lott, R-Mississippi, said of Roth's plan.

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Unfortunately, the city council has appointed a rival commission to deal with the same issue, just in case the mayor's commission should come up with something sensible.

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On past performance there's a good chance they'll come up with something.

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It's a dream come true -- something you think about as a little kid growing up.

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Matias says it spent more than two years working on a new type of key switch -- a modified ALPS switch it's dubbed Quiet Click -- and it has indeed come up with something unique.

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If the economics favour it, the companies are probably correct, unless opponents can come up with something much more potent than the coalition that led to Keystone XL's rejection.

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Members of Opec, made up of the world's major oil producers, have come under pressure to do something to stop the recent sharp rises in the cost of a barrel.

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