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of mere variants in certain sentences, or in the fact that there were different authors and transmitters of them; and although many of these deviations are cited by R. Jonah and R. Jose, who lived and taught contemporaneously at Tiberias, this fact scarcely justifies the assumption that there were two different Talmudim, one taught by Jonah and the other by Jose; it will nevertheless be evident, from the statements cited above, that the Talmud existed in some definite form throughout the amoraic period, and that, furthermore, its final redaction was preceded by other revisions.

of in-house expertise, where possible; $104,700 under experts, resulting mainly from concerted efforts to combine meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and office equipment resulting from extending the lifespan of furniture and equipment; and $781,600 under grants and contributions, mainly owing to the termination of the contract with the International Computing Centre.

Secretariats and bilateral agencies (GTZ, France, Canada, Japan) or conducting joint activities in a large number of countries, for example with UNDP (Burundi, Cape Verde, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti, etc); UNIDO (Cote D’Ivoire, Egypt, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Uganda, etc); GTZ (Botswana, Ethiopia, Gambia, Mauritius, etc).

either visitors or foreign labourers for the purpose of visa issuance.

that to the extent the proposal purports to state a rule of substantive law its presence in a set of contractual rules may be problematic; that consideration could be given to re-casting the Rules as facilitated settlement rules rather than arbitration rules and thus avoiding the problem that the proposal is intended to address; and that the intended result might be achieved by using wording found in a note to Article 1 of the UNCITRAL Model Law on Electronic Commerce to the effect that its provisions are not intended to derogate from legal norms aimed at consumer protection.

should be maintained, some others felt that there should be a reconsideration of their relative share: in particular, a few Member States suggested a reinforcement of Major Programme I (Education) but without proposing specific amounts for an increase; others recommended an increase of resources for Major Programmes III (Social and human sciences) and IV (Culture), especially the World Heritage Centre; yet others proposed increasing the resources allocated to Major Programme V (Communication and information).

of origin for cannabis resin, although two countries made reference to Afghanistan.

subject to supervision or regulation, and the location whose law governs the preparation and auditing of accounts.

power to the servers at 208 volts.

institutions were in conflict and that new efforts in the 1990s to resolve the continuing “debt crisis” since the period 1979-81 thus needed to address security issues.

issuance of compulsory licences to a greater extent than required by TRIPS; it does not explicitly allow parallel imports; it incorporates the elements of UPOV 1991 in the agreement and it provides for a copyright term of 70 years after the death of the author.

legislative agenda that is being pursued and the speed with which legislative decisions are being taken all raise profound questions about the effectiveness of lawmaking going forward, as discussed in Section V below.

correspondence in the BL and in ordinary legislation, most of which was already in place prior to the application of the Covenant in the MSAR.