The fiduciary obligation to treat is not as easily waived as in earlier trials.
The Irish government encouraged the move with such financial incentives as waiving import taxes on future acquisitions and offering a full exemption from estate taxes.
"We're seeing, in some instances, airlines are doing such things as waiving change fees, or offering various perks and upgrades to try to placate the corporate customer for the bad service," Mr. Carpenter said.
And surely, as noted earlier, there is a sense of forgiveness in which an action such as waiving a debt or an utterance such as "I forgive you" is sometimes all that forgiveness is about.
Perhaps, instead, such acts as waiving a debt, especially if it is a crushing debt, and pardoning a convicted felon, are in the final analysis more akin to acts of mercy than they are to acts of forgiveness.
It could also give owners incentives to preserve them, such as waiving permit fees for restoration work or offering a free process for historic designation.
Building owners are hoping the city will give incentives, such as waiving the city's gross receipts tax for businesses to move back into retrofitted buildings after they are vacated for the construction work.
Doing so in court testimony likely would be seen as waiving the right against self-incrimination, they said, but the rules are looser for congressional testimony and there is no definitive court ruling on the point.
In other cases, buyers would be coaxed into relying on the homebuilder's mortgage subsidiary through enticements such as waiving closing costs or promised discount points that never actually materialized.
Where cost is a major deterrent, it may be useful to consider possible ways of supporting parents such as waiving charges for follow-up services including diagnostic evaluations since the number of babies are likely to be low at this stage in a well-conducted programme.
