Bottom trawling, which involves raking the ocean floor for food on a huge scale, leaves behind wastelands where there had been complex ecosystems.

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The refurbished theatre will include a new foyer and a fourth-floor 200-seat studio theatre for small-scale events.

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Firms may, however, find economies of scale at a level other than that of the factory floor.

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For small investors it will be either a great level-the-playing-field opportunity to get in on the ground floor of promising startups or a federally sanctioned invitation to fraud on a scale not seen since the boiler-room days.

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These began innocuously as a concern about floor mats that jammed the accelerator pedals of certain models and then escalated into full-scale recalls of its most popular cars, a temporary shutdown of sales and manufacturing, and government fines and legal actions.

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Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd, whose name is on the broader bill, considered an amendment that would scale back the Lincoln proposal but decided instead to push the whole bill to the floor of the Senate for consideration.

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