The thought of the city's 24,000 cabbies bad-mouthing them to several dozen passengers a day has discouraged successive governments from trying to reform the archaic regulations that protect licensed taxis.
WASHINGTON — The official in charge of Medicare and Medicaid for the last 17 months says that 20 percent to 30 percent of health spending is "waste" that yields no benefit to patients, and that some of the needless spending is a result of onerous, archaic regulations enforced by his agency.
He said until now there were few vehicles that could meet the "archaic" regulations in London which include a 28 ft (8.5 m) turning circle.
There is also the frenzied rush to sign up customers at any cost and archaic regulations that forced DSL players to adopt a wrongheaded structure from the beginning.
Over the past decade, groups like Free Press, MoveOn.org, the Media Access Project, the Center for Digital Democracy and others have vociferously protested every attempt to seriously reform the archaic regulations that bind media operators.
The bigger contributors are the frenzied rush to sign up customers at any cost and archaic regulations that forced DSL players to adopt a wrongheaded structure from the get-go.
