"We feel the burden of the rules," laments Ferrie, "every time one of our American businesses innovates and wants to share it with counterparts in our U.K. businesses".
The reported high prevalence of diabetes exemplifies the shift from a burden of disease ruled by mortality from infectious causes to chronic ones (40).
It is a rare day that you pick up a newspaper without encountering a reference to "job-killing regulations" from a pro-business Republican complaining about the burden of a new rule from the Environmental Protection Agency or other government office.
The Garrett proposal, calling for the S.E.C. to do its job with a greater sensitivity to cost-benefit analysis, might seem, on a superficial level, to make great sense; having regulators weigh the burden of a new rule against the benefits seems appealing.
Lorenzo Amor, the head of the national federation of self-employed workers, who make up about half the companies in Spain, said that the small- and midsize companies were staggering under the burden of inflexible labor rules, worker absenteeism and lack of credit.
It also calls for the state to replace 50m feet (20.2m hectares) of turf with drought-friendly planting.Audio and Video content on Economist.com requires a browser that can handle iFrames.Farmers, who receive water from other sources, will not bear much of the burden of the new rules.
Judges determined that the burden of the new rules fell unfairly on minority voters. .
The firm claims the "burdens" of the rules could destroy or seriously damage legitimate manufacturers and retailers, and warns of a hidden or parallel trade in products made either illegally within the EU or outside.
And things could get really bad if we get into a situation where some of the worst burdens of these rules go through.
