Mr Brown offered no time scale for moving from pilot projects to full-scale implementation of pet passports, but promised it would occur quickly.

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The city, which has tested the proposal in a small-scale pilot initiative, cites research that show that similar programs can boost the number of words spoken to a child by 55 percent.

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But although a number of other firms will soon join the race with pilot projects, no full-scale CCS coal plant has yet been commissioned.

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Where we crave sweeping transformation, however, all the current bill offers is those pilot programs, a battery of small-scale experiments.

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In a nutshell, PepsiCo10 pairs some of the best emerging tech with our brands to launch pilot programs that road-test the technologies at scale, providing a window into the innovations that are likely to fundamentally change consumer behavior over the coming months.

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As part of the cross-marketing campaign, each Alpina Startimer Pilot watch will be packaged alongside a Cessna Citation Mustang scale model in PrivatAir livery.

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