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- a period of delay, for example, additional time agreed by a creditor and a debtor for recovery of a debt
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- Los Angeles passes ban on new fast-food outlets
- LOS ANGELES AFP — Los Angeles officials on Tuesday approved a one-year ban on fast-food chains opening in a poor neighborhood of the city plagued by obesity, officials said. The moratorium covers the 500,000 people living in the 32-square mile area of South Los Angeles, which is predominantly Hispanic...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- Current developments in employee benefits and pensions.(part 2)
- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY * Defined-benefit plan distribution rules have been amended to facilitate phased retirement alternatives for workers. * Regulations have been issued that clarify what are considered qualified distributions from Roth 401k accounts and the rules for rollover distributions from these...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- US psychologists to take stand on military torture tactics
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — The American Psychological Association will decide Sunday whether to condemn torture tactics and place a moratorium on members' involvement in interrogations at US military detention sites. The decision, if taken, would move the world's largest professional organization of psychologists in line with similar resolutions by...
- Research articles 2007-08-18
- Chad fights back to protect elephants from poachers
- THE HAGUE AFP — Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has detached 400 regular army soldiers to defend the remnants of a once-thriving elephant population decimated by poachers, the country's top conservation official said. "The soldiers are taking positions in and around Zakouma National Park as we speak," Abakar Mahamat...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Congress Continues To Debate Internet Tax Freedom Extension
- In February, Rep. Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.) introduced the "Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act of 2007," seeking to extend the moratorium on Internet access taxes and duplicative taxes on e-commerce permanently. The moratorium applies to a variety of Internet services, including digital subscriber line DSL, cable...
- Research articles 2007-05-29
- Divided, deadlocked and doomed? Dark days for whaling body
- FRIGATE BAY, St Kitts and Nevis AFP — About the only thing member countries of the polarized International Whaling Commission can agree on is that it doesn't work. A turbulent, often bad-tempered five days of annual talks in the Caribbean nation of St Kitts and Nevis only served to...
- Research articles 2006-06-19
- GMO : EUROPEAN STANCE ON GMOS CONDEMNED BY THE WTO.
- The World Trade Organisation WTO has officially published its report on the moratorium imposed by the EU on genetically modified organisms GMOs between October 1998 and May 2004. The moratorium, imposed following a complaint from the US, Argentin The World Trade Organisation WTO has officially published...
- Research articles 2006-10-13
- Freeze on new insurance policies may snarl home closings along Texas' coast.
- By Purva Patel, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 14--Hurricane Ivan will likely delay some people from closing on their homes along the Texas coast during the next few days, even though the storm isn't expected -- so far -- to...
- Research articles 2004-09-14
- U.S. Beef Producers Pleased with Mexico's Partial Lifting of Ban.
- By Chris Clayton, Omaha World-Herald, Neb. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 5--KEARNEY, Neb. -- Mexico's announcement Wednesday that it would partially lift its ban on U.S. beef exports was welcomed Thursday by producers and government officials who gathered at the Governor's...
- Research articles 2004-03-05
- BIOTECHNOLOGY: EU EXPERTS DIVIDED OVER SALES OF TRANSGENIC MAIZE BT 11.
- During the Committee meeting, only six countries (Spain, Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland) were in favour of authorising Bt 11, six voted against (France, Austria, Luxembourg, Denmark, Portugal and Greece) and three others abstained (Germany, Belgium and Italy). A decision...
- Research articles 2003-12-19
- Congressional budget office: internet tax moratorium bill costly.(Brief Article)
- The Congressional Budget Office CBO warns in a new report of potentially significant costs for state and local governments if Congress passes legislation that extends and expands a moratorium on taxes on Internet services fees, as is proposed in legislation before the House (HR 49). ...
- Research articles 2003-07-28
- Congress moves to expand Internet Tax moratorium for DSL lines.(Brief Article)
- Congress is poised to greatly expand the preemptive authority of the Internet Tax moratorium by amending the law to guarantee that digital subscriber line DSL services are not subject to taxation. "We are extremely concerned over Congress' continued willingness to preempt state and local...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
- US seeks WTO action to end GM moratorium.
- The United States and Canada are to take action at the World Trade Organisation against the European Union for its continuing moratorium on genetically modified products. The moratorium has been in place since 1998 and a number of Member States have refused to take action to lift...
- Research articles 2003-06-01
- Work Continues on West Virginia Budget.
- By Phil Kabler, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 14--House and Senate budget conferees will do the heavy lifting today as they try to resolve remaining differences in a 2003-04 budget that will, for the first time in state...
- Research articles 2003-03-14
- Power planning: state considers joint agency to balance energy needs with environment.
- A multiagency planning authority that would consider environmental preservation along with projects to meet Connecticut's growing energy needs is -- at the very least -- being discussed by state officials. Department of Public Utility Control DPUC Commissioner Donald W. Downes spoke at length...
- Research articles 2002-11-04
- Nasdaq May Drop Manatee County, Fla., Telecommunications Company's Stock.
- By Christopher Cole, The Bradenton Herald, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 10--MANATEE, Fla.--Teltronics Inc.'s stock is dangerously close to being removed from the Nasdaq after trading at below $1 for three weeks without a spike over that pivotal threshold. Ewen...
- Research articles 2002-01-10
- Dead Reckoning : A WORLD EFFORT TO FORCE AN END TO THE US DEATH PENALTY IS GAINING STRENGTH.
- Dinan, Brittany This walled medieval city in France's ancient Breton heartland is the last place anyone would look for evidence of a coming transformation in US law. German and British tourists crowd the old stone streets and file through the twelfth-century Church of St....
- Research articles 2001-08-06
- Capitol observer
- ECONOMISTS IN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY HOPE FOR AN UPTURN in business in the fourth quarter. They think lower interest rates will boost overall economic demand enough that businesses will have reason to increase their expenditures. That would allow economic growth to return to a healthy, sustainable pace. But it is...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- Endangered Species Lawsuits To Proliferate.
- Byline:Andrew Schneider There's no relief in sight for homebuilders and other developers whose plans are often delayed or blocked by the presence of threatened or endangered plants or animals. Despite a change in the White House and a renewed push in Congress to "fix"...
- Research articles 2001-05-10
- Steve Forbes Speaks at Jacksonville, Fla., Tech Policy Conference.
- By Simon Barker-Benfield, The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 10--He is bigger in person than he looked on television when he campaigned for the presidency in 1996 and 2000, and his one-liners in front of a live audience go over well....
- Research articles 2001-03-10
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