Public works procured through dense official rules generally experience extreme delays as companies invest in politically connected middlemen to gain front row status.
Usually, though, they run slap into Germany's dense thicket of rules and laws.
It has the sting of the new — the minor sport with a major place in history, a satisfyingly dense array of rules and dexterities, and yet, for all that, an aim that seems piercingly simple.
But researchers say that the workers' compensation system has become such a dense patchwork of rules and regulations that seriously injured workers often find they need lawyers to guide them.
It is a dense minefield of rules and regulations that governs everything from the size of windows to the pitch of rooftops, the depth of stair treads to the gradient of slopes – even where to put light switches.
In the case of the car competition, contestants must enter vehicles that are safe to drive and affordable to build, through means defined by a dense set of rules.
In a struggle to rehabilitate its image since the scandal erupted, Siemens has draped a dense net of rules over the company to familiarize everyone with the basic precept that money-for-business is no longer standard practice.
