The council is creating the allotments on a site it owns in Maidenhead to try and shorten its waiting list of about 400 people, who will be able to bid on half of the plots exclusively.

BBC: Allotment

Then, the Fed will most likely try once again to douse the fire it started with another round of QE gasoline, creating an even larger and less manageable inferno.

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After the meeting, leaders in both parties said they would begin work on the legislation immediately, and House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Missouri, suggested Congress try to pass legislation creating the new department by the September 11 anniversary -- so that it could be up and running by the first of 2003.

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