No amount of amendments to the bailout package will change the administration's disastrous economic record or erase the manifest failure of the Republicans' free-markets-above-all ideology.
Paul famously filibustered the Senate for more than 10 consecutive hours in opposition to the Patriot Act and the NSA's collection of phone metadata, remarking that there is "no excuse not to debate this, no excuse not to vote on a sufficient amount of amendments to try to make this better, to try to make the bulk collection of records go away".
Algae production therefore requires only small amounts of amendments such as carbon sources and nutrients.
Increasing the amount of phosphate amendment caused Bray extractable As to increase (Fig. 6).
Plant available Fe, Mn, and Cu were significantly decreased with increasing PyOM addition intensity by up to 39.4%, 50.8%, and 30.0%, respectively, especially under the highest amount of PyOM amendment (5%).
"Against the huge tax breaks that the committee is considering today, the amount of this amendment for some of our most desperate young people is a pittance," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), who had offered the foster kids provision that was stripped out.
A response surface methodology (RSM) based on a factorial design was performed to investigate and optimize the effects of the microbial consortia application rate and amount of mature compost amendment on the TPH removal (964 μg g−1 initial concentration).
The amount of the different amendments was adjusted in order to meet the N requirement of tomato crop.
Equal and comparable amounts of soil amendments [human urine, chemical fertilizers (2 3 2 NPK fertilizers) and biosolids] were added to each of the four beds representing each group of the amendments and thoroughly mixed with the soil.
It is likely that a small pilot study, performed to optimize choice of candidate species and amounts of growth amendments for each specific tailings site, may be necessary to ultimately reduce costs and make implementation of phytostabilization successful.
