In July, the Birmingham City Council, concerned about the pending state bill, drew up a resolution condemning the law.

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Officers said they had spoken to Lincolnshire County Council about the state of the road.

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More than 1, 100 professions require a license in at least one state, but only about 60 trades are licensed in every state, according to the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation.

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And we have -- as you know, the Secretary of State met with the head of the National Council, and that was a form of recognition about the importance of that body.

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Bush said he is dispatching high-level delegations -- composed of officials from the State and Defense departments and the National Security Council -- to Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada to talk about building a new missile defense strategy.

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CNN's Miles O'Brien spoke Sunday to former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Murphy, now a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, about how the United States should deal with Arafat.

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Exacerbating worries about the Fed easing up on its stimulus program, China's State Council said on Wednesday that it would continue with market controls to curb increases in property prices.

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