(Mrs. Clinton, for instance, required the ghostwriters of her autobiography to sign such documents).
The cheeseburger, for instance, requires the meat to be cooked sous vide for several hours.
Changing the number of employees at a government institution, for instance, requires the president's signature -- there are more than 1.2 million government employees -- as does any contract with a foreign country.
Every hiring decision for a company with 77,000 employees, for instance, required the approval of a seven-member management committee.
"Hybrids" such as molecular evolutionary genetics, ecology and evolutionary biology, and systems biology, for instance, require the expertise of researchers whose skills require a lifetime to master.
Further analysis into the root causes for higher share of direct personnel and service costs is required, but it may be assumed that administrative regulations which, for instance, require the employment of qualified engineering staff are pushing up operating costs.
The administration has spent as long as two years reviewing some of the energy efficiency rules proposed by the Energy Department, bypassing a 1993 executive order that in most instances requires the White House to act on proposed regulations within 90 days.
These NIEHS programs strongly encouraged and in some instances required the participation of lay people, or community residents, in community-based environmental health research.
Conservatives passed one amendment, for instance, requiring that the history of McCarthyism include "how the later release of the Venona papers confirmed suspicions of communist infiltration in U.S. government".
Other, more institutional changes would at least help the state better plan for budget fluctuations: for instance, requiring legislators to adjust the budget in the middle of the year if it seems revenue is falling short, or building a robust rainy-day fund that the state would fill in good times and draw from in bad times.
