Moves to revive industry include imposing firm budget constraints on state enterprises, decentralizing economic planning and allowing commercial transactions between firms.
With family intervention, parents are offered practical help, advice and counselling but in return they must agree to take charge of their own children, imposing firm boundaries and crucially getting them out to school.
Today, TripAdvisor's neighbours are companies such as Raytheon, Oracle and Microsoft – stolid, established, imposing firms, the kinds of places where wearing hoodies and jeans at work is just another passing fad.
Targeting managers in their personal capacity would be a greater deterrent to excessive risk-taking than fallbacks such as imposing firm-level liability.
In Tripoli, Libya Dawn has struggled to impose firm rule on a city now giving way to anarchy.
The White House, which has steadfastly resisted California's pleas to impose firm caps on runaway electricity prices, is also worried about the political impact if the administration is seen as ignoring the state's crisis, these advisers said.
He also said that he would not approve any state Medicaid experiments that imposed firm limits on federal spending or eliminated the guarantee of specific benefits for poor people.
The threat to challenge the government's shale gas incentives is retaliation for that, and for Britain's attempts to foil a proposed directive on shale gas that would impose firm regulations on its exploitation.
In his budget request to Congress, President Bush will try to impose firm, enforceable limits on the growth of federal benefit programs, and the chairmen of the Senate and House Budget Committees say they strongly supported that effort.
* Schools should impose firm, consistent discipline, monitor drug use, improve security, develop a comprehensive drug prevention curriculum and seek support from the community, including treatment groups and law enforcers.
Jasaw Chan K'awiil I and his heir Yik'in Chan K'awiil continued hostilities against Calakmul and its allies and imposed firm regional control over the area around Tikal, extending as far as the territory around Lake Petén Itzá.
