It's problems like these that have led analysts, economists and commentators, on both sides of the political spectrum, to claim that the stimulus measures enacted mid-recession have been a disappointment.
In Louisiana, where Governor Bobby Jindal's education reform legislation was enacted in mid April, the new law declares that students in low-performing schools are eligible to take their share of state funding to any accredited private or religious school.
The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that only $25 million of Obama's $3.7 billion request might be spent before the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30, although that scenario assumes a bill would not actually be enacted until mid- to late-September.
The final version of the law has not been published, although it was enacted in mid-March.
Among the airlines' commitments, which are to be enacted in mid-February, is a policy to reward passengers who give up a reservation on an overbooked flight.
U.S. federal regulations and standards governing the care and use of research animals enacted in the mid- to late 1980s, while having positive effects on the welfare and quality of the animals, have resulted in dramatic increases in overall research costs.
Both the majority and dissenting opinions analyzed at length the intentions of the law, which was enacted in the mid-70's in an effort to keep defense lawyers from attacking the character of rape victims.
The section enacted in the mid-90s states that online platforms "offer users a great degree of control over the information that they receive, as well as the potential for even greater control in the future as technology develops" and "a forum for a true diversity of political discourse, unique opportunities for cultural development, and myriad avenues for intellectual activity". .
And Silicon Valley had Congress in a state of siege over a new accounting rule that would force companies to deduct employee stock options from earnings, a rule that the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) had failed to enact in the mid-'80s.
In particular, virtually no attention has been paid to the mid-level technocrats who enacted privatisation strategies and techniques.
In the mid-nineteen-eighties, Congress enacted federal sentencing guidelines that imposed harsh mandatory minimums for drug offenses, even petty ones.
