MOSCOW — Though its gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico is capped, BP seems doomed to years of hostile regulation and lawsuits in the United States.
Since then, as he explained in an interview with Francis Fukuyama, "an ossified, Weberian bureaucracy and the increasingly hostile regulation of technology" have crippled government's capacity to foster technological innovation.
Companies are often tempted to appease these groups lest they suffer harmful publicity or hostile regulation.
Defend City institutions from hostile European Union regulations, it is argued.
They're more inclined to identify as pro-life and anti-gun control, more doubtful about global warming, more hostile to regulation.
What the commission is asking for are tough new rules and money to strengthen federal oversight at a time when the House is controlled by politicians who broadly oppose new spending and seem hostile to regulation of any sort.
The modern president faces meddlesome news media, an aggressively partisan Congress and a public that is hostile to regulation -- a problem Machiavelli cleverly anticipated when he declared that there are two kinds of people: those who want to rule, and those who don't want to be ruled.
Patiently and wisely she takes us through the forensic uses of DNA, medical screening by insurance companies and irksome who-to-tell questions that arise with rare, though horrible, late-onset genetic killers such as Huntington's disease.She is not hostile to regulation, only to the wrong kind.
To make things worse, many regulators have been captured by the industries they're regulating, or are hostile to the regulations they're responsible for enforcing.
