It is Saturday, so, though not an official holiday, it is not a regular work day.
The committee is evaluating Novartis's offer and has yet to rule on whether it thinks it fair, though it is hard to imagine it will do so.
The document overstates likely tax revenue by assuming that Congress will not extend relief from the Alternative Minimum Tax, even though it is sure to do so.
Fighting it, though, can be expensive, so it is easy enough to imagine how most of these requests go.
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The system is not foolproof, though it is designed to be nearly so.
Mr Gibson told BBC Northern Ireland's The View that the order is considering a new tactic - not filling in the notification forms for the PSNI in future, even though it is legally required to do so.
Much opposition to the ivory trade is grounded in a moral sense that it is wrong to trade in elephants even though doing so is the best means of preserving the species.
That makes it easier to digest, so even though the stuff is no more calorific, the body uses fewer calories dealing with it.
Part of what makes "Picnic" so special, though, is that there's so much more to it than that.
But most South Africans, while disapproving of multiple concurrent wives, enjoy their president's unabashed embrace of his Zulu origins, beliefs and traditions, of which polygamy is an accepted part, though people practise it less and less, not least because it is so expensive.
It is just that I can't resist pointing out the obvious, even though it is not in my interests to do so.
It is so long, though, that if the 3 billion base pairs were linked together and pulled out straight, the result would be a metre in extent.
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Last year Dr Benenson's team developed one of the most complex cell-based molecular circuits created so far, though it is still much simpler than systems built in test tubes.
Because it is so large, though, the share of international marriage remains low: only 4.6% of Americans were married to a foreigner in 2010, up from 2.4% in 1970.
It is illegal in Germany though and so if someone in Germany reads a piece which denies the Holocaust then the writer of that piece can be hauled up in front of a German court and tried and then punished.
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Though Israel so far has not done so, it must insist that if it is to give up the defensive asset of the Golan Heights, there must be not only a demilitarized zone on the Golan, but also a reduction of Syria's armed forces and missiles, and a dismantling of its arsenal of chemical warfare.
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So far it is unclear who decides this, though one Constitutional Court judge indicated that the government and Election Commission should do so jointly.
So far, though, it is not known whether these algae in particular are found in clouds more than algae of other species.
So far, though, it is not the giants of European finance that are making the most headway, but a handful of small, specialist companies.
So far, the European Commission has treated applicants on a first-come, first-served basis, though there is no guarantee that it will continue to do so.
Red Fish: A victim of its own success, redfish was heavily overfished 30 years ago and when the supply dried up, so did regional demand, though it is delicious and still in favor in other regions.
It is also, though, because life assurers are so complicated, a fact that is born out by the 800-plus pages of the official report into the affair published by Lord Penrose, a senior judge, this week (see article).
Again, though, it did all of that before, so this is mostly just a refresher.
So far WIPP is empty, though it was ready for business by 1988.
But this gas cloud, because it is so far away, about 40, 000 light years is still seeing the quasar, though we are not.
On the other hand, banks and other firms who want to hire Americans may find it harder to do so, even though greater China is one of the world's fastest-growing regions.
But film crews have been drawn to the hotel -- and, it is whispered, so have ghosts, though that probably has more to do with Thai belief in the supernatural than anything else.
Though there is room to walk round it, the piece is so strong that it seems to divide the room in two so that the viewer is never certain what is happening on the other side.
Though it is often a challenge to develop one vision out of so many different perspectives, our diverse backgrounds and experiences have allowed us to debate and challenge each other, but still come together to achieve the fundamental goals that drive the Coalition forward.
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