Another Setback For Saturday Stays The dread Saturday-night-stay requirement that airlines impose on less expensive advance-purchase tickets to discourage business travelers from buying them is not dead, but it continues to wobble.
And, like the Washington consensus, the Brussels one was more or less imposed on a bunch of middle-income countries, with the blessing of those countries' governments: Latin America for the Washington consensus, central and eastern Europe in the case of the Brussels one (and before that Spain, Greece and Portugal).But the Brussels consensus has several features of its own.
If the requested order simply restricts the erasure of backup tapes, a judge may see this as practically coextensive with the common law obligation imposed on a responding party, and is therefore less likely to find that the order is overly burdensome.
Staff protests have forced HSBC to abandon a pay freeze imposed on staff less than two weeks ago, even though its chief executive has warned of the "very challenging operating environment" this year.
The disproportionate burden that the grim labor market has imposed on the less skilled remained pronounced in January's numbers.
It may well be that Germany did not want the bank levy imposed on balances of less than €100,000.
The more contact hours imposed on students, the less time they have to read, think and write, these being the three crucial elements of higher study.
Senator Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, who faces a competitive race for re-election next year, was the only Democrat to vote for the amendment, which stipulated that no new tax, fee or penalty could be imposed on families making less than $250,000.
Others, starting with the premise that an equitable tax is one that imposes equal sacrifices on individuals at different income levels and accepting the view that the utility of any given unit of money becomes less the more money one has, have tried to demonstrate that progression is needed if the sacrifices imposed on the wealthy are not to be less than those imposed on persons less-well-off.
