California, Florida and Georgia have adopted building codes that encourage white-roof installations for commercial buildings.
Reform-minded zoning is characterized by efforts to restrict development and sometimes to channel it to existing urban areas and can take many forms, such as urban growth boundaries like in Portland, Oregon, or changed zoning codes that encourage multi-use construction and discourage car travel.
They learned to work under laws that weakened trade unions and under tax codes that encouraged income and wealth inequality.
For example, given that many respondents indicated that national policies changed in response to previously adopted national and regional codes of practice, further studies would be helpful on whether it is the timeliness, geographic relevance, occupation-specificity, or another attribute of these previous codes that encouraged their uptake by decision-makers.
A study released a few weeks ago by the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington found five major elements in the tax code that encourage overpaying executives.
Instead, entranced by Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building on Park Avenue, a masterpiece of bronze metal set back in a handsome plaza, officials switched to a zoning code that encourages standalone towers.
The crooks rented suites at the Waldorf Astoria, travelled with fake diplomatic passports, and adhered to a fourteen-point dress code that encouraged the use of gold pocket watches, homburgs, and Montblanc fountain pens.
Bush promised to "restore dignity to the White House," and the mood inside the administration was subdued from the start, with a reinstated dress code that encouraged women to wear pantyhose.
Mr. Obama called for a series of steps that would provide enormous benefit for the middle class and for those hoping to enter it: universal public preschool in every state, a tax code that encourages manufacturing, a higher minimum wage and vital repairs to infrastructure.
Instead of championing religion as the blanket solution to our failing moral standing, we should instead be intent on fostering a new code that encourages positive morality and altruistic behavior without the cultural, historical, tribal, sexist and racial baggage and bias that define so much religious doctrine.
Manufacturers that are seeing the long-term horizon past the current economy recognize that they need to invest aggressively in R&D, and we need a tax code that encourages those investments.
