The financial sector continues to rake in money at the expense of the rest of the country, courtesy of bailouts, too-big-to-fail insurance, and being largely exempt from taxes applied to other industries.
I understand that a family's primary residence is exempt from consideration when applying for financial aid, but in planning for our daughter's pending college entry, we are finding that the small condo is being treated as a "second home" and is hurting our expected family contribution.
The Abu Ghraib scandal seems not to have chastened Cheney or any other Administration officials; in fact, they are for the first time arguing openly and explicitly that C.I.A. personnel should be exempt from standards that apply to every other American.
Due to its classification as a Least Developed Country, it is exempt from implementing, enforcing or applying TRIPS provisions on patents with respect to pharmaceutical products until 1st January 2016.
Beyond that, they argued that leaders who believed their states or localities should be exempt from the requirements could apply to "bail out" through a federal review.
Hockey's continuing violence, though legislatively reduced in the past few years, is still tolerated as a culture all its own and therefore exempt from the standards loosely applied elsewhere.
In the process, Mr. Raacke, 47, a civil engineer from East Hampton who has held the $65,000-a-year position since 1993, has emerged as the most persistent and best informed critic of the authority, which is exempt from state regulations that apply to private utilities.
"The American people respect and support our military, but they do not believe, nor do I, that the Pentagon should be unaccountable or exempt from the laws which apply to us all," said Representative Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia, senior Democrat on the House Resources Committee.
Charters are independently operated and exempt from some rules that apply to traditional campuses.
One more example of how Wall Street thinks it's exempt from the rules that apply to the rest of us.
