On the tax side, Congress is almost certain to extend most, if not all, of the Bush-era tax cuts beyond their scheduled expiration in 2013.

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Certain provisions extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, where powers are reserved to Westminster, such as on terrorism.

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By storing excess electrical energy that is generated by the dynamo in a capacitor, and getting the spring to unwind only when the capacitor charge falls below a certain threshold, it has proved possible to extend the playing time of the second-generation radio to about an hour.

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They have no desire to indulge in a further round of write-offs, which will weaken their balance-sheets, and thus have a temptation to extend loans and allow covenants (commitments by borrowers to meet certain financial conditions) to be renegotiated.

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The first of those, he urged, is free and open trade with the continent -- an issue that was knocked around the House and Senate last year with the consideration of a bill that would extend free-trade provisions, under certain circumstances, to nations in the continent's sub-Saharan region.

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She said that the association understood the pressures on Royal Mail, but she called for the group to extend its price freeze this winter to all pensioners, not just those on certain benefits.

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