"Bill Elliott's Thunderbird made it easier to approve the new Chevrolet and Pontiac," Bill France, president of the sanctioning body, recently told a group of reporters.
(It's easier to approve the human-dog subtext of the 1995 BBC series, with Ehle's Elizabeth playfully leading a dog around with a stick, as Firth's Darcy looks down from the window, panting).
He said it is far easier to approve legislation under a parliamentary system such as that in Canada, where the executive and legislative branches are "always together" when there is a majority government.
As he seeks to cut countryside safeguards and make environmentally damaging projects easier to approve, Osborne's rhetoric is, ironically, knocking investor confidence in the UK's valuable and fast-growing clean energy sector (growing at 5 per cent a year and outpacing the anaemic growth in the rest of the economy).
It may be hard to imagine that somewhere like Canada, whose prime minister is not even coming to London this week, will welcome the prospect of playing a bit part at a future London coronation; but as republicans have found in Britain, constitutional change is easier to approve of in theory than in action.
European officials had been hoping that Time Warner would simply abandon the EMI deal, and they have let it be known that the merger with America Online would be much easier to approve if Time Warner were not trying to expand its grip over the worldwide music business.
If elected, Hahn would be the fourth labor-backed liberal on the officially nonpartisan five-member board — constituting a supermajority that could make it easier to approve tax and salary matters favored by the county's most powerful unions.
Hahn would be the fourth labor-backed liberal on the officially nonpartisan five-member board — constituting a supermajority that could make it easier to approve tax and salary matters favored by the county's most powerful unions.
The pact states that local governments and counties will be asked to take measures to meet the goal, which has recently taken a backseat to initiatives like Nevada's new building law that makes it easier to approve construction projects.
The approval of TPA does not guarantee TPP or the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), but it does make them easier to approve and bolster the credibility of free trade as a means of domestic and international policy.
