The authors also call for firms to bear more of the cost of extreme flexibility, though they provide little detail as to how.
On Sunday, thousands rallied near the Washington Monument to protest the pipeline and call for firmer steps to fight emissions of climate-changing gases.
But, on the eve of the World Economic Forum, the chummy annual gathering of the world's business elites, Ms. Lagarde delivered a strong call for firmer financial regulation around the world.
Even the Senate's watered-down requirements call for firms with more than 200 employees to automatically enroll workers in employer-provided coverage.
Generous when generosity was called for, firm - sometimes even brutally so - when he felt firmness was needed, he was an astute leader and masterly negotiator.
Getting a Russian general manager to take on full responsibility for a joint venture often calls for firm measures.
Lisa Devereau, president of the Washington State Funeral Directors Association, has also called for firm laws on where people can scatter the compost.
Stuart Etherington, the chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, called for "firm details" of how the government intended to protect charities and community groups from losing out.
We have called for firm new measures to curb the menace of Gypsies who flout the law and despoil the countryside with their rubbish-strewn, insanitary squats.
