Because of a federal law intended to streamline securities regulation, the toughest cops on Metropolitan's turf -- officials in Washington State's department of financial institutions --were essentially taken off the beat in 2000.
In this way, concepts around paternity rights or rights to abortion, for example, become redundant, having little opportunity to develop as the child is essentially taken off the biological parents' hands.
Part of the excitement of the new winery was a solar array that would essentially take it off the power grid.
But the company appears to be repeating the same pattern it exhibited back in the 1990s when the Internet began to take off, essentially making a hodgepodge of investments to spread itself around without forming a clear vision on how it would play in the market.
Those Israeli proposals have essentially been taken off the table by the majority of Israeli voters with the last Israeli elections in 2001.
So right now, Obama is free to ban torture as he sees fit, but since the risk of being prosecuted has essentially been taken off the table, the next president could just as easily reverse that.
He created Playtxt, essentially an SMS flirting and networking service which had some traction but did not take off.
