Speaking at an event in Davos, he blamed the empty seats early in London 2012 on the organisers' clamp-down on so-called touts or scalpers.
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He is proposing a further clamp-down on asylum-seekers: per person, Switzerland gets far more refugee applications than any other sizeable European country.
She added that money from a clamp-down on stamp-duty avoidance could be used to cancel the "damaging cut" to working tax credits.
There is speculation of a freeze in pensions and public sector pay, a clamp-down on early retirement and a cut in spending on infrastructure.
All told, Sky is responsible for a vast chunk of the Premier League's income, so a regulatory clamp-down on its ability to sell on the content it has bought from the soccer league could mean it will end up paying less for domestic broadcast rights in the next bidding round, which takes place three years from now.
The current European Parliament President, Hans-Gert Poettering has reformed the pay and expenses regime to clamp down on abuses - after the next election, MEPs will have to provide receipts for their expenditure and there will be new rules on employing assistants to prevent abuses.
FIFA, meanwhile, have announced new rules to clamp down on third-party ownership of players following the Carlos Tevez controversy involving West Ham.
RYANAIR, the most aggressive of Europe's low-cost airlines, saw its share price plunge by 30% on January 28th, following reports that the European Commission is about to clamp down on cut-price-deals which it has with relatively out-of-the-way airports keen to lure tourists.
Washington and Wall Street have been hesitant to clamp down on the over-the-counter market, the source of much profit-making.
Trying to clamp a commercial-property lender on to a retail and corporate bank may yet prove to be a mistake.
Two bills are snaking their way through congress at the moment in an attempt by the entertainment industry to clamp down on online file-sharing and piracy.
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The government is trying to clamp down on overbilling by managed-care firms.
The U.S. in recent months has put increased pressure on Pakistan to clamp down on insurgent groups, especially the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network.
Before he was elected president in 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy was a tough centre-right interior minister who vowed to clamp down on crime.
And what has become of the administration -- previous proposals by the administration to try to clamp down on this by threatening to withhold federal funds if tuitions keep rising?
The municipalities hosting two New York City-area marathons Sunday will add police and clamp new security measures on runners and spectators following last month's bombing at the Boston Marathon.
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The private bill - put forward by Westminster City Council and supported by all 33 London boroughs - would help councils issue fines to the public and clamp down on rogue traders.
Stanley invented a double-brake system using two brake shoes supported by springs that clamp down on a disc.
Since the pay bill makes up about two-thirds of the total NHS budget, one obvious strategy is to clamp down on wage costs.
"Countries need to co-operate with each other on investigations, proceedings and ultimately prosecutions" to clamp down on the criminal practice, she told MEPs.
With 11 out of the 16 first division clubs still in with a chance of winning the title, there are fears that match-fixing in this year's campaign could increase if Fecafoot does not clamp down on errant officials.
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The Ministry of Justice also announced new measures on Tuesday to clamp down on criminals hiding their assets to qualify for legal aid under the "Crown Court means-testing scheme".
For their own part, boasts Mr Hague, the Conservatives have been more specific than any previous opposition on how they would reduce the size of government and the number of politicians, to clamp down on welfare fraud, deny unemployment benefit to people who refuse a job and privatise industrial-injuries benefit.
The claim comes as European countries step up efforts to clamp down on U.S. companies which minimize their tax bills in the continent by channeling profits through low-tax regimes.
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This is what made the FDA clamp down on antibiotics at exactly the time when Big Pharma was abandoning the drugs due to profitability concerns and drug-resistant bacteria were starting to ooze onto the scene.
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