• If a permit is revoked, it could prove a "death sentence, " in the words of one Massey lawyer, because that would make it difficult for other permits to be issued or old ones renewed.

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  • Almost every other neighbour is building new ports or expanding old ones, but Indonesia's lag far behind in efficiency and productivity.

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  • At the same time, this initiative will give a much-needed boost to our manufacturing sector by building new plants or upgrading old ones.

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  • Its response was to forbid public companies, after July 30, 2002, to make or even arrange new loans to executives or to modify or renew old ones.

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  • And those pesky city councils (egged on by unions) and neighbors (egged on by fearful local merchants) in some burgs organize against Wal-Mart building new stores or expanding old ones.

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  • What is shocking as lurid details keep surfacing are not only the women coming out with new allegations, or confirming old ones against the embattled IMF Chief, but the women who are coming to his defense.

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  • During their centuries of use, the pillars were periodically buried, with new pillars built on top of or alongside the old ones.

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  • Surviving institutions would then use their government cash to make new loans rather than simply to renew or write off old ones.

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  • Another solution is to use sediment dredged from navigation channels in one part of the lagoon to build beaches and new islands or to reinforce old ones in another part.

    ECONOMIST: Flood barriers

  • The 1960s were when the Food and Drug Administration, in the wake of the thalidomide scandal, started requiring proof of efficacy and long-term safety, and when medicine started relying on clinical trials that compared new treatments to old ones or to inert sugar pills.

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  • Perhaps the saddest aspect of Mr Khatami's dilemma is that he is being solicited not because he has new ideas or new methods of advancing old ones, but because he is an elder statesman whom the Council of Guardians, a vetting body, would not dare bar from running.

    ECONOMIST: Iran

  • But the new products were usually cheaper and easier to use, and so people or companies who were not rich or sophisticated enough for the old ones started buying the new ones, and there were so many more of the regular people than there were of the rich, sophisticated people that the companies making the new products prospered.

    NEWYORKER: When Giants Fail

  • National governments are being pressed to dust off old laws, or pass new ones, aimed at corporations.

    ECONOMIST: Companies and human rights

  • Consumers buy new computers because they old ones get damaged or they need more performance in the same way you might buy suits at a regular clip to replace ones that are starting to look a bit haggard.

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  • Ministers are settling into their new departments, or becoming re-acquainted with their old ones in some cases.

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  • Many new white-collar jobs in vast call centres, for example offer no more autonomy or better prospects than old blue-collar ones.

    ECONOMIST: Class

  • But most of the presentations here involve new information about existing drugs or new drugs that are similar to old ones.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Developing applications for the new Web environments or even for the old client-server ones with less resource constraints changes how we think of application functionality.

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  • The slow-down in consumer spending on new automobiles since 2008 has benefited auto parts companies during a period where people may have opted to repair or upgrade their old cars rather than purchase new ones.

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  • Leidal also realized that his colleagues did not fully recognize the cost of redundant systems as new systems did not always lead to old ones being shut down, or if they were shutdown may not have much cost saving if they were home grown.

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  • "The ones that are large, dark or old--they're dead, " he says, watching two pit bulls bounce up and down.

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  • The Palestinians accused Mr Netanyahu of proposing the short-cut precisely because he wanted to avoid carrying out old commitments, or, indeed, making new ones of his own: his idea, they said, was that once embroiled in talks on things that really matter, the two sides could be relied on never to emerge, at least not with an agreement.

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  • That raises the question of whether cronyism really is dead, or whether fresh cronies are popping up to take the old ones' places.

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  • Opposition to this measure comes from folks who fret about a dystopian future where cost-conscious doctors or insurance companies or bureaucrats render judgment about which old people live and which ones die.

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  • The possibilities of building new friendships and strengthening old ones, of joining a school club, or trying out for a team.

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  • Countries with existing nuclear capacity that do not share Germany's deep nuclear unease or its enthusiasm for renewables may choose to buy new reactors to replace old ones, as Britain is seeking to do, to help with carbon emissions.

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  • It adds that all songs stored on your hand-held devices are now placed in a special cache from which old or rarely played songs are automatically removed periodically to make room for new ones.

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  • They were, after all, originally designed to run in 640 kb of RAM, perhaps 1 or 2 MB for some of the more recent ones (ie, 20 years old, not 30).

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  • Such decisions would nevertheless reflect a view shared by many, both from within the industry and among nuclear power opponents, namely that old nuclear power stations are considerably less safe - or more dangerous - than new ones.

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