They insist (as do the sugar companies) that all they really want is flexibility in order to avoid endless lawsuits if they miss the 2006 deadline.
"They also need speed, agility and flexibility in order to be able to pay out as soon as the wheel stops on the table.
Employers and unions wanted some flexibility, in order to attract desired employees, so the Administration permitted increases in health-insurance benefits, and made them tax-exempt.
Georgia has said it could agree to one or the other, but not both, saying it will need flexibility in order to provide the water that Atlanta needs.
Too few investors take advantage of this flexibility in order to spread their bets, putting their money into the same asset year after year, says Danny Cox from independent financial adviser Hargreaves Lansdown.
Perhaps most symbolic of all, the 75% top tax rate, set up initially as a temporary two-year measure, will be quietly allowed to die.At the same time, the government wants to permit greater flexibility in order to boost competition.
Why would members ever think that it's worth giving up flexibility in order to provide the public with a near-meaningless piece of information?There's progress at the Fed; the minutes make this clear.
If British business needs light regulation and labour market flexibility in order to make up for its lack of real competitiveness, it might be better off under a more bracing regime.Overall, British business still gets off lightly compared with other European countries and in the government's view, even scores over America on some fronts.
There are serious problems with the electricity market in California, but these have little to do with any shortage of fossil fuels; rather, they are the result of a botched deregulation.America is right to insist on market-oriented mechanisms, unfettered trading and full flexibility, in order to minimise the economic cost of the Kyoto treaty.
Frontline users expected the computer to prevent any bad decisions, and yet, the clinical advisory committee was reluctant to make any restriction on dosing regions that would compromise a provider's flexibility in ordering.
"There needs to be a radical reshaping of the UK's political economy, with our metros given sufficient decision-making powers and financial flexibilities in order to become financially self-sustainable," the commission said.
