Former Representative Jim Talent, who is challenging Senator Jean Carnahan, a Democrat, co-sponsored a bill in 1993 that would have allowed individual retirement accounts.
"It allowed individual investors to get direct access to the market to compete and get the same advantages that professional market makers do".
For example, Penney had long prided itself on a decentralized ordering system that allowed individual store managers to make the bulk of the purchasing decisions.
When it comes to competition for specific jobs, emerging market countries have so far allowed individual ambitions to prevail over their collective interests.
A disclaimer of interest would have effectively dissolved the union and allowed individual players to file antitrust suits against the N.H.L. for continuing the lockout.
The George W. Bush administration allowed individual drilling permits to be issued without a detailed environmental review, resulting in a surge of oil and gas production.
Wages and working conditions were set in sector-wide negotiations that allowed individual firms little scope for variation, tying employers' hands.
Opponents of the resolution carried the day by contending that the party would do better in the fall elections if it took no position on abortion and allowed individual candidates to express their individual views.
To begin changing the system into one that allowed individual stock-market accounts (can you imagine how that would have worked out?) might have made it possible to realize the long-running conservative dream of a truly dominant Republican Party.
Following the decision, the Supreme Court allowed individual states to decide whether to apply the ruling retroactively; the states of Alabama, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania decided to uphold all prior sentences.
It replaced the scroll because it allowed individual parts of a long document to be split up and produced simultaneously by many scribes, speeding up manufacture and allowing books to be copied and distributed widely.
