The preparation for the charter was undertaken by the predecessor to the current Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the Standing Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe because involvement of local and regional government was essential.

Local jurisdictions of Fairfax County, Arlington County, and the cities of Alexandria and Falls Church agreed to appropriate $ 3 million to purchase land adjacent to Mason to provide for a Fairfax Campus in 1966 with the intention that the institution would expand into a regional university of major proportions, including the granting of graduate degrees.

The abolition of regional development agencies and the creation of Local enterprise partnerships were announced as part of the June 2010 United Kingdom budget.

On 29 June 2010 a letter was sent from the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to local authority and business leaders, inviting proposals to replace regional development agencies in their areas by 6 September 2010.

Local and regional

Local government is carried out through three regional mayors.

Local and regional newspapers include the The Cork News, Carrigdhoun, the Cork Independent, The Corkman, the Mallow Star, the Douglas Post, the East Cork Journal and the Southern Star.

Local public service radio stations are YLE Turun Radio in Finnish language ( the regional version of YLE Radio Suomi ) and YLE Radio Vega Åboland in Swedish language ( the regional version of YLE Radio Vega ).

There has been five referendums like this on a national level, one on a regional level ( Gozo Civic Council referendum, 1973 ) and a number of local referendums organised by single Local Councils.

Local Coverage Determinations ( LCD ) apply within the multi-state area managed by a specific regional Medicare Part B contractor, and Local Medical Review Policies ( LMRP ) were superseded by LCDs in 2003.

A regional council means one of the regional councils listed in Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act 2002.

The Local Government Act 2002 requires regional councils to promote sustainable developmentthe social, economic, environmental and cultural well-being of their communities.

Prat de la Riba also founded the Escola de l ' Administració Local ( School of Local Administration ), in order to create a body of Catalan civil servants for the regional government.

A two-tier structure constituted under the Local Government Act 2002 gives the South Island seven regional councils for the administration of regional environmental and transport matters and 25 territorial authorities that administer roads, sewerage, building consents, and other local matters.

Starting in September 2004, Fox Sports Net became known simply as FSN, but the name Fox Sports Net also remained in common use until recent years, when the new name " Fox Sports Local " has been used to refer to its regional networks.

Local news is covered by regional newspapers and Pinole Patch.

Local, regional and nationally known artists are represented through gallery exhibitions, concerts, theater productions, dance productions, film festivals, lectures, opera and symphonic performances.

Local, county, and regional news is covered by the daily Jersey Journal.

Local companies create and export software as well as other computer related products.

Local trains however are subsidised by the German states, which pay the operating companies to run these trains.

Local telephone companies at the time of the divestiture are also known as Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers ( ILEC ).

Local companies also entered the market.

Local tour guide companies offer custom " they drive you " trips into Yosemite Valley, and local White Water Rafting companies offer trips on the Tuolumne River nearby.

Local companies manufacture brakes, small electric motors, aftermarket auto parts, metal doors, rubber parts and school laboratory furniture.

Local transport in and around the town is provided by Stagecoach Western, and three locally based companies, James King Coaches, Irvine and McCulloch's Coaches.

Local bus services to Oxford and the surrounding areas are run by Stagecoach Oxfordshire, Thames Travel, the Oxford Bus Company and smaller independent companies.

In spite of this, a scheme for viviendas de protección oficial ( VPO ) has been widely used, consisting of Local Councils allowing for building contractors and developing companies to build in public sites or with public loans on condition that a certain percentage of apartments remain subsidized and under control of the local authorities.

" ( Section 251 ( 3 )( 2 )( B )) This led to the creation of a new group of telephone companies, " Competitive Local Exchange Carriers " ( CLECs ), that compete with " ILECs " or incumbent local exchange carriers.

Local government councils and similar authorities also set up government corporations, such as water supply companies and " local-authority trading enterprises " ( LATEs ) ( New Zealand ), as separate corporations or business unit of the councils concerned.

* Local companies are better positioned against foreign competition

Local rental car companies are also available.

Local governments could issue bonds to construct factories that could be leased to companies ( who were also offered tax breaks ).

Local groups, called variously units, companies or troops are the fundamental unit of the Girl Guides.

The Wireless Local Loop market is currently an extremely high growth market, offering Internet Service Providers immediate access to customer markets without having to either lay cable through a metropolitan area MTA, or work through the ILECs, reselling the telephone, cable or satellite networks, owned by companies that prefer to largely sell direct.

* Local companies and organizations

On 17 May the LDV achieved official legal status when the Privy Council issued the Defence ( Local Defence Volunteers ) Order in Council, and orders were issued from the War Office to regular Army headquarters throughout Britain explaining the status of LDV units ; volunteers would be divided into sections, platoons and companies but would not be paid and leaders of units would not hold commissions or have the power to command regular forces.

Firstly, Vivodi offers ADSL lines by utilizing the unbundling of the local loop ( LLU ), which allows private companies to have full or shared access to the Local Loop of the customer.

Local Japanese people and companies have donated 200 cherry trees which are all planted in a single park near Roihuvuori.

Local companies may specialise in small systems tailored to clubs, pubs and small outdoor events whereas larger companies will cater for concert halls.

His Surgical Observations on the Constitutional Origin and Treatment of Local Diseases ( 1809 ) — known as " My Book ", from the great frequency with which he referred his patients to it, and to page 72 of it in particular, under that name — was one of the earliest popular works on medical science.

There could be no SHELAB — the astronauts would work out of the LM — and the LTV accommodating two persons took the name Local Scientific Surface Module ( LSSM ).

* Local post stamps — used on mail in a local post ; a postal service that operates only within a limited geographical area, typically a city or a single transportation route.

In the Local Supercluster it is possible to see star clusters, and current telescopes could in principle observe faint individual stars in the Local Cluster — the most distant stars resolved have up to hundred million light years away ( see Cepheids ).

* 1. 9 Ym — 201 million light years — Diameter of the Local Supercluster

* Local autonomy or site autonomy — a department can control the data about them ( as they are the ones familiar with it.

Local government is the lowest level in the system of government in Malaysia — after federal and state.

* Department of Local and Regional Democracy and Good Governance — Council of Europe

Local kings often invited temple dancers ( devadasi ) to dance in their courts, the occurrence of which created a new category of dancers -- rajanarthakis — and modified the technique and themes of the recitals.

Local and even religious interests were subordinated to those of the whole nation, and of the embodiment of the nation — the King.

Local associations with his original seat — Kutha — and the conception formed of him as a god of the dead acted in making him feared rather than actively worshipped.

The Local Government Commission for England presented draft recommendations, in December 1965, proposing a new county — York and North Midlands — roughly centred on the southern part of the West Riding of Yorkshire and northern parts of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.

Local laws define the deaths a coroner must investigate, but most often include those that are sudden, unexpected, and have no attending physician — and deaths that are suspicious or violent.

UMass Boston's graduate student employees ( teaching assistants, research assistants, and administrative assistants ) are represented by the Graduate Employee Organization / UAW Local 1596 — UMass Boston Chapter.

Local legend insists that " the hole that won't stay filled " never vanished — even after being filled in numerous times during the decades that followed.

Local businessmen were major backers of the first railroad to connect Illinois ' ( then ) two biggest cities — Chicago and Quincy — as well as a third leg initially terminating across the river from Burlington, Iowa, eventually connecting to it via bridge and thence onward to the Western frontier.