But Mr. Altman said there were also differences, notably that the Obama plan puts more responsibilities on employers and focuses more on controlling costs, and avoids a requirement in the Romney plan that individuals buy coverage.
The union at American Airlines complained to the Federal Aviation Administration a month ago that pilots on a flight from Dallas to Honolulu were sent on an unsafe route to try to keep the flight under eight hours, avoiding a requirement for a third pilot, but the agency ruled last week that the airline was technically complying with the existing limits.
The Romanian refugees were seeking to avoid a new requirement, which comes into force at midnight tonight, that they first obtain visas.
It proposed changes to enhance money laundering laws, such as criminalizing the structuring of cash transactions to avoid a reporting requirement.
Thus police would not be able to avoid a warrant requirement simply by waiting for the suspect to place an object in a car and then invoking the automobile exception.
The figures, from the National Statistics Institute, are not exact, only reflecting the number of people who have registered with local authorities in their municipality; many foreigners have taken their name off municipal rolls to avoid a new requirement to declare assets located abroad.
Locals are trying to come up with interim fixes that will provide enough protection to avoid a federal requirement that homes and businesses buy flood insurance, but have bristled at having to meet corps standards for federal levees in doing so.
The July Suspicious Activity Report by North Fork that flagged Mr. Spitzer's transactions picked up three wire transfers totaling roughly $10,000 to QAT International, in what appeared to the bank as a possible attempt to avoid a separate legal requirement that banks notify the Treasury Department of transactions of $10,000 or more, officials involved with the case have said.
Infosys regularly misinformed immigration officials about where Indian workers on B-1 visas would travel in this country, to avoid a more onerous requirement of the H-1B visa that the company demonstrate that it was not undercutting prevailing wages paid to Americans in places where Indians would be assigned, the documents show.
