Under the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, known as SOLAS, there are many mandated standards for ship operators, but critics -- including U.S. lawmakers -- point to the fact that there are also many codes, guidelines and recommendations that are voluntary.
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The Syrian Foreign Ministry statement backtracks on previous public commitments given by the government that it will fully abide by the U.N. six-point plan, which paves the way for a cease-fire, due to be implemented by Tuesday.
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It has authorized up to 300 monitors in Syria to monitor a cease-fire and the six-point peace plan of U.N. and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan.
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"This is not a business where you can get away with bullying a counter-party, " says John Hattenberger, Gazprom's point man in the U.S., from his one-man office in downtown Houston, set up in preparation for building more permanent Gazprom digs there.
The cease-fire went into effect April 12 and is part of a six-point peace plan negotiated by U.N. and Arab League joint special envoy Kofi Annan.
To begin, rather than be realistic about what can be achieved even assuming a sympathetic House and Senate, Romney has devised a 160 page, 59-point plan to boost the U.S. economy.
The cease-fire is part of a six-point peace plan laid out by U.N.
However, shelters especially designed for the B-2 have been set up at Diego Garcia in the central Indian Ocean, which is used by the U.S. military as a stopping-off point for its bombers.
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U.N. envoy Kofi Annan's six-point plan to end the crisis addresses the issue.
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Optimists point out that U.S. money-supply numbers look robust.
This point-based system may allow the U.S. to put legal immigrants on a path to citizenship by issuing green cards to legal immigrants based on criteria such as number of years present in the U.S., level of education, employment potential, etc.
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Despite many challenges, Annan said the U.N. mission and attempts to implement his six-point plan continue.
However, U.S. counterterrorism officials say signs point to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, and they haven't seen anything to rule it out.
The text of the draft calls for the immediate implementation of a six-point peace plan, as put forward by U.N.
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Dorner's ID and some of his personal belongings were found Thursday at the San Ysidro Point of Entry at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the affidavit.
Patrick's Day last year, was again making the holiday a jumping-off point for an extended trip to the U.S., with stops in Washington and on the West Coast over the ensuing several days.
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The unemployment rate, obtained by a separate survey of U.S. households, ticked up one-tenth of a percentage point to 7.9%.
But since, improved U.S. economic data included a 0.3-percentage-point fall in the September jobless rate and a 1.1% rise in retail sales.
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Wittbecker said supplies of scrap are inching upward as recycling has risen in the U.S. to 58% in 2010, a one percentage-point rise year-over-year.
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Helping the advance was another improving data point on the U.S. economy, with first-time jobless claims falling to 330, 000 last week, from 335, 000 in the prior reading.
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As many new distillers are quick to point out, the presently sparse U.S. spirits-making landscape--with a relative handful of large whiskey distilleries plus a few big rectifiers making neutral spirits for white liquor--is a post-Prohibition phenomenon, a historical fluke.
"Today marks a critical moment in our six-point plan for ending the violence in Syria, " said U.N.
Al-Sharaa headed meetings with the former U.N. and Arab League point man on Syria, Kofi Annan, and international officials visiting Syria.
The May 10 Bank of England 25-basis-point rate hike to 5.5%, topping the U.S., gives an opportunity to benchmark U.S. monetary stimulus.
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