The money was there for a freeze if they wanted to take it up...it is a matter for them.

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The Arkansas legislature will probably take up the matter in January, and will presumably back the farmers' demands for a clean-up.

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Reid said that while the Senate Rules Committee might take up the matter soon, the Senate as a whole would ultimately have to vote on whether to seat Burris.

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The House of Representatives passed a similar bill last year, but has yet to take up the matter in the 109th Congress.

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We in the U.S. and other developed countries take it for granted that one can set up a lawful business in a matter of days or weeks.

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But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) cried foul, claiming that the Republicans had backed out of a bipartisan compromise, and promised that the Senate would not take up the matter until the House came around.

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Cell phones have been wildly popular for only a matter of years, and it can take at least a decade for cancers to show up.

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And some schools take in extra pupils at S5 as a matter of policy - typically from schools which cater only for those up to S4.

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