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Its estimated winding-down cost, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, amounts to £11. 3m.
Government's 'bonfire of the quangos' plan will cost as much as it saves Polly Curtis 2010
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Ali George shares her views on the winding-down of the Guardian local blogs.
Edinburgh today: Planning meeting, Allen Ginsberg and a new Danny MacAskill clip 2011
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My life and schedule are admittedly cushy, compared to many people's, but still I cherish those winding-down hours after the dishes are done.
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"Yet a separate, entirely Nazi, rationale argued that the worsening situation on the Eastern Front required if anything an intensification of the Holocaust, rather than a winding-down."
Hell's Ethos Jonathan W. Jordan 2011
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Real Time Brussels EU Tries to Help Big Banks to Fail The goal is for key bank services, such as withdrawing deposits and making payments, to remain unaffected in the process of winding down a bank and for the cost of that winding-down not to weigh on government budgets.
EU Proposes Plan for Bank Failure Riva Froymovich 2011
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That may be due to the fact that, five years on, Murtha's vision is still unachieved: U.S. troops remain engaged in a now winding-down Iraq war.
Remembering The 'Murthquake': When John Murtha Took On The Iraq War 2010
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It is with the greatest regret, on behalf of our Board, that we must announce that Air America Media is ceasing its live programming operations as of this afternoon, and that the Company will file soon under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code to carry out an orderly winding-down of the business.
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Ah, the pre-election, winding-down death throes of a long political campaign and the guaranteed finger-pointing nastiness that ensues as each candidate tries to smear the other in a thick coating of "unsuitable for office."
A Kick In The Career: Negative Campaigning For Fun and Profit 2010
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People still die in Northern Ireland in the winding-down phase of the sixteenth century Wars of Religion.
Peter Baldwin: Why We Have Culture Wars and the Europeans (Apparently) Do Not Peter Baldwin 2010
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The bill also includes a new two-pronged approach for the orderly winding-down of failing financial institutions: The first stage would be a restructuring process that would give courts a large array of options for guiding a troubled company back to independence.
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