"It is therefore mystifying that we are being criticised for accepting onerous terms in exchange for public subsidy - terms which drove others away".
The same for the New York Islanders, who have a lucrative cable television deal but are being suffocated with an onerous lease at the NHL's second-oldest arena.
Now, I am largely fielding calls from individual registered persons who are troubled by the nature of the retention packages they are being offered or by onerous terms that acquiring or merged-into entities are trying to impose upon them (in contra-distinction to their present employment agreements).
With the evaporating competition in the commercial airlines industry, the customers are being burdened with escalating airfares, onerous fees and, above all, plummeting levels of service on the ground as well as on board.
The idea was to "reframe the debate" -- shift attention away from the reasons the insurers were being sued -- onerous policies and cheating doctors out of payments -- and toward those trial lawyers who were getting filthy rich filing "frivolous" lawsuits.
Zealous regulation can result in regulatory capture; a few big firms can afford enough lobbyists to write their own rules, which tend to be are so onerous that they make it impossible for smaller competitors to challenge the incumbents.
"If people have got problems with some of our rules, if we're being too strict or not onerous enough, hell, we'll talk about it and negotiate.
"It's been a pretty onerous tax on small and medium-sized businesses," said Talmadge Heflin, the director of the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative research and outreach organization.
The fees, that is, are sometimes so onerous and the tax results so bad (some of what you get from the trust is doubly taxed and taxed at rates of up to 35%) that escaping a trust might be worth paying a ransom to the promoter, plus the capital gains tax you were avoiding in the first place.
Now I don't know Joan Shikegawa myself, but if the trouble of a search is too onerous and she's been doing well, then give her the full power.
The small details can be onerous -- and cannot be overlooked.
