Now the Garden State will lose the billions of dollars in federal money that were committed to the project; they'll be reallocated elsewhere.But Mr Christie isn't the only GOP chief executive cancelling federally funded high-speed rail projects.
This agreement stabilized the situation until World War II, after which the European scene was substantially changed, and a conference in Copenhagen in 1948 reallocated frequencies in the European Broadcasting Area.
If no one wins more than 50 per cent of the votes, the bottom candidate drops out and the second preference votes of his or her supporters are reallocated.
If no one wins a majority, the bottom placed candidate drops out and the second preference vote of their supporters is reallocated.
According to the authors, a possible explanation of this finding is that "the boycott primarily reallocated shares and operations from 'socially responsible' to more indifferent investors and countries".
This matters, because Boris Johnson has shifted planning policy in favour of shared ownership and away from social rent, and has recently reallocated grant money in the same direction.
Thirty-two MPs would have to be summarily dismissed, including the foreign minister, Fumio Kishida, and other party bigwigs, if the court ordered how seats were to be reallocated.
Some modern writers have rechristened the phenomenon "flexible recycling"*, but the basic idea is the same: old companies die and new ones emerge, allowing capital, ideas and people to be reallocated.
He also plants and harvests on neighbouring farms, which have been reallocated to black owners, and gets half the crop.
Perhaps then, to please the growing band of small countries, a commissioner could after all be retained for each; and the votes in the council might then be reallocated to give a bit more weight to big members.
Technological advance will tend to raise that threshold while educational attainment will tend to lower it (so that a larger share of the labour force, when displaced, is reallocated into relatively high-skill work rather than into competition for low-skill jobs).But: the real wage varies with labour supply at various skill levels.
