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"Now it's up to about 30. " The catalyst is China's new Labour Contract Law, which took effect in January after two years of intense debate.

The girl was pictured sitting with her mother reading celebrity magazines as the the bleach took effect.

His head spun a little and his eyelids grew heavy as the wine took effect.

The new rules retroactively took effect on January 1 2008 and tax experts said the country's biggest companies would be affected.

Most economists agreed the second half would be a turning point as the looser monetary and fiscal polices gradually took effect.

but no sooner had the comb touched the roots of her hair than the poison took effect, and the maiden fell to the ground lifeless.

Russian ban on grain exports took effect Sunday as at least 500 fires raged across the country.

But the court decided that the thousands of gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect can stay wed.

I was happy the other day when I was at the bakery near our house and I saw the new campaign against plastic bags took effect.

Mofcom has received 40 antitrust filings since the new laws took effect and Coke's deal is the first to be rejected.

It was the first non-confidence motion in the upper house since Japan's current pacifist Constitution took effect in 1947.

Thousands applied at Hungarian consulates in Romania on Monday, when a new citizenship law took effect, a Hungarian community leader said.

Before the Amendment took effect, women had been serving our Nation in the public realm since its earliest days.

When the ban took effect, England was the largest jurisdiction to forbid smoking in enclosed public spaces.

Now, before these rules took effect, school lunches were at least 825 calories.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's ban on grain exports took effect Sunday, and it is expected to continue through the end of the year.

The 2005 law, which never took effect, violates children and adolescents' right to freedom of expression, the court ruled by a 7-2 margin.

So far, no one has challenged Anna Jaques's new hiring policy, which took effect Nov.

It is the first such United Nations meeting since the Kyoto Protocol took effect earlier this year.

The state news agency disclosed some details of the proposed amendments to the current state secrets law, which took effect in 1989.

It is the first publication of a merger decision since beefed-up anti-monopoly laws took effect in August.

Some also point to a food-labeling law that took effect July 1 as a sign of bigger government.

A provision of the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986 banned private ownership of machine guns manufactured after it took effect.

To do that, he has been on the road constantly since the split took effect.

The assessment is organized once every two years since a regulation on the village doctors' professional qualification took effect in 2004.

Scientific marketing " then took effect . Its motto is : " Give the people the least quality they'll stand for .

In January, new European Union rules took effect placing tighter restrictions on the redemption of coins.

Exclusive, quickly took effect-- "drink of rheumatism care " knowledge property right of nation patent are attorned or cooperated .

Perhaps the biggest catalyst behind the shifting climate for light manufacturers is a labor-contract law that took effect Jan.

Shenzhen's policy to ban electric bicycles in major urban districts took effect Monday, Xinhua reported.

Mines, which operated before the mining rights system took effect, should also pay mining rights of un-mined mineral resources by stages.

On June 22nd a convention to standardise credit-default-swap (CDS) contracts for clearing took effect in Europe.

The formation of the commission was provided for by the new Antimonopoly Law, which took effect Aug.

New Cigarette Control Regulations in Hangzhou Public Areas took effect Monday.

Smoking was forbidden in hospitals, kindergartens, schools, museums, sports venues and other places before the new regulations took effect.

Productivity is up by 11% since the new contract took effect.

Those links were cemented by a broad trade pact that took effect this month.

dentist waited until the anesthetic took effect.

Until bans on in-flight smoking took effect in 1988, flight attendants were regularly exposed to secondhand smoke.

The medicine took effect immediately .

The new law, which took effect last month, attempts to streamline and standardize the government's antitrust activities.

A temporary rule governing( ) with and acquisitions by foreign investors took effect on April 12 this year.

Gao could face a jail term of one to six months under China's newly-amended Road Traffic Safety Law which took effect May 1.

Though the curfew order took effect 3 p. m. (8 a. m. ET) Monday, protesters again ignored the curfew in both Cairo and Alexandria.

The newly amended Criminal Law took effect on Sunday.

The change took effect yesterday.

The medicine quickly took effect.

You are wrong in that you took effect for cause.

The cases will test a new insolvency regime which took effect in September 2004.

However, the inflation index would start decelerating in the second half of 2008 as the government's macro controls took effect.

The aspirins which the patient had taken soon took effect.

The Framework Convention, which took effect in 2005, is ratified by nearly 170 countries.

After half an hour, the drug took effect.

And the medicine took effect quickly.

The latest increase took effect last week and brought the minimum wage to $6. 55 an hour.

The medicine soon took effect.

The aspirins soon took effect.

According to a notice seen by the FT, this took effect on August 6.

Standards were raised again in 2000, when the Housing Quality Assurance Act (HQAA) took effect.

Chinese fertility was falling for decades before the one-child policy took effect in 1979.

The new law took effect in late July.

CPC's new prices took effect on Monday.

China's antitrust law took effect in 2008.

Even before the new law took effect, the Chinese were adept at using the existing patchwork of tort laws.

The UK's anti-bribery law took effect on July 1.

Japan's annexation treaty with Korea took effect on Aug. 29, 1910, and lasted until 1945.

Nonetheless, the government held firm, and the new prices took effect on July 1st.

In 1990, the year it took effect, the cap was set at 65, 000.

Administrative License Law took effect on July 1st, 2004 in People's Republic of China.

The agency issued a tough new egg safety rule last year that only took effect on July 9, after this outbreak had started.

But in the late 1990s, economic demand shocks gradually took effect,

After SOX Act took effect