"It is hard to see how permitting existing companies to supplement their current spectrum holdings will increase competition," officials from the Small Business Administration wrote in October, calling the F.C.C.'s rationale "illogical and self-contradictory".
Colorado permitted existing medical-marijuana outlets to start selling recreational pot on January 1st, although brand new recreational retailers will not open until October; so far the state has issued some 194 licences.
This knowledge not only permits existing breeds to be re-created, but allows entirely new combinations of form, colour and behaviour to be invented, at the customer's command.GeneDupe's Universal Pet Printer is loaded with each of the 220 cell types (grown from stem cells in the company's histology laboratory), and is programmed with a three-dimensional map of the creature it is to create.
The method permits existing models of railway vehicles and track to be incorporated and it has application to any model of vibration transmission through the ground.
Methods for estimating heritability from SNP data – for example Genome-wide Complex Trait Analysis and LD (linkage disequilibrium) score regression [ 10, 11 ▪] – have permitted existing ASD GWAS collections to report strong, cumulative contributions of common inherited variants to autism risk.
The California State Lands Commission, which controls the state's entire coastline, quickly fired off a letter warning the federal government that it would not issue any new pipeline permits, or allow existing pipelines to be used for new offshore operations. .
The point was not lawbreaking, though, but what has long been permitted under existing loose laws, say reform advocates like Mr. Jindal.
European governments handed out emissions permits to existing power plants and factories free of charge; that turned out to be a windfall for big polluters, who were able to sell on unneeded permits for huge profits.
