For meaninglessness, my money's on Jimmy Carter: "It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests".
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At the state level, however, entrenched special interests always prevail because they stand to gain more from a given change in the law than the costs imposed on any competing special interests -- the costs, at the level of a single state, are dispersed too broadly to generate effective opposition, even though those costs, cumulatively, may be crippling to the state.
Laws and regulations in the United States, as in most other countries, still contain hundreds of instances in which a special burden is imposed on certain companies or a special benefit is conferred on other companies, all to the detriment of their rivals.
The case has also generated strains between the British and American governments, with officials in Washington, at least under President George W. Bush, speaking out against any move to shorten the minimum 27-year sentence imposed on Mr. Megrahi by a special Scottish court in Camp Zeist, a former NATO air base near Utrecht, Netherlands.
Mr. Jiménez replaced James Spalding, who stepped down late last week after Congress put off voting on a bill that would have raised the country's value-added tax rate and imposed a special levy on luxury items like perfume and cigarettes, major products in the booming trade in contraband here.
The government has already imposed a special 20percentt levy on oil and gas companies, which have responded by raising their prices at the pump in defiance of Mr. Duhalde's calls for restraint.
The agency imposed a special assessment on banks that gave it an immediate $5.6 billion cash infusion.
On Wednesday morning, it imposed a special "surge" fee — a rate of at least double the normal fare.
The closeness of the lobby to the memorial imposed a special obligation on Mr. Maki and his client, Silverstein Properties, to create a space that was respectful without being sepulchral.
