One component of the proposal, dubbed the "Blackstone bill", is aimed at publicly traded investment partnerships which, because of the way they structure themselves, are not even taxed at corporate rates.
Referring to the key component of the proposal, which is to grant the bailout fund a banking license, Germany's finance ministry said the E.S.M. did not need such a license and the matter was not even being discussed.
However, the HCS investigators objected to this component of the proposal, since it may have presented a historical threat to inferences derived from data collected during subsequent phases; that is, they wanted to preserve the naturalistic (non-intervention) elements of the longitudinal study.
The study was submitted to the IRB, which determined that the sequencing was part of the educational experience and that the research component of the proposal (questionnaires) posed no greater than minimal risk and met criteria for exemption under Category 2 Research involving the use of educational tests or survey procedures.
But the way to bring reform into better proportion is to adjust the components of this proposal, not to fundamentally remodel it.
A second story follows Sunday newspaper reports about one of Leveson's assessors, the Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, airing concerns about the statutory component of the proposals.
Later, a major component of the proposals, the long-delayed plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, cleared a major hurdle when the Senate voted to include it in its budget bills.
One of the components of the Clinton proposals likely to be of particular concern to the Bush team is the idea of an international force in the Jordan Valley that would, according to officials, include American soldiers.
These are some of the benefits and disadvantages that analysts, economists and money managers were weighing yesterday as they generally voiced support for components of the president's proposal.
Broadly, the main components of the joint research proposal could be: (1) provenance of groundwater and estimation of groundwater recharge by multiple approaches including isotope hydrology, the other methods being hydrogeology, hydrochemistry, piezometric data, and hydrochemistry, and (2) flow, transport and geochemical modelling.
