Eligible projects for funding by the NIB would include transportation infrastructure, water infrastructure, and energy infrastructure.

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Other important writing tools include: the steel pen nib, the stylus, the brush, the pen.

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The entire barrel, cap and nib on the prototype on display were made of 18k yellow gold.

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To maximize leverage from Federal investments, the NIB would finance no more than 50 percent of the total costs of any project.

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The thickness of the nib, he says, is purely a personal choice.

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Making matters worse, the McMahon Line was drawn with a fat nib, establishing a ten-kilometre margin for error, and it has never been demarcated.

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The piece is topped with a heart-shaped hole of the gold nib and the finely engraved Princesse Grace de Monaco monogram on the cap-top.

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Because Rieussec's chronographs employed a stationary nib that inked elapsed time on rotating discs, Montblanc saw a natural link between his invention and the company's own history.

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Apps with table views in their nib or storyboard files, and that were built using previous versions of iOS 6 beta, will require a clean build with beta 3 and newer.

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Nib replacements are included inside the retail packaging.

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In normal times David Cameron's criticism of Labour's economic record would have had to include some scathing personal criticism or devastating new statistics for it to get any coverage beyond a nib (news in brief).

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