In the absence of state legislation, seaside towns on both coasts have started imposing bans on lawn fertilizer, some temporary, some for the whole six months of the rainy season.
Congress and the Bush administration are under pressure to act quickly because the European Union has started to impose retaliatory tariffs on American exports and the tariffs will rise to $4 billion a year if the tax break for exporters is not repealed.
The government has started with work, imposing a controversial temporary 5% cut in what the visa regime calls Tiers 1 (highly qualified folk) and 2 (skilled workers with a firm job offer); further cuts are likely when a permanent cap comes into force next April.
Since the 2007 ban on indoor smoking in public places, TV and film producers have started retrospectively imposing the no-smoking rule: reaching back decades into the past to pluck the cigarettes out of characters' mouths, the packets out of their costumes' pockets and generally sweep away the rotten habit.
Divided into four main sections, each centered on a different character, the movie opens near a northern town where a man in a green army coat, Dahai (an imposing Jiang Wu), has started a solitary campaign against the village chief and the local boss, who have grown rich selling collective property.
Naken Kasiev, the governor of Osh province in southern Kirgizstan, estimates that legal exports from the area have plunged by 50% since Uzbekistan started imposing trade restrictions last year.
The problems with the projects did not become apparent until the end of 2006, when contractors who had not been paid for months started imposing liens against the homes, and when Coast Bank of Florida, the bank owned by Coast Financial, started asking the borrowers to make interest payments that had previously been paid from the loan balances.
Ivory Coast have started to impose themselves on the game.
And some states, like Michigan, have started to impose penalties on people over 65, said Michele P. Fuller, an elder-law lawyer in Shelby Township, Mich.
Absent and truant students are beginning to cost schools so much that some have started to impose strict, and sometimes unforgiving, punitive measures for those who miss school.
