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.
(Mrs. Clinton, for instance, required the ghostwriters of her autobiography to sign such documents).
Every hiring decision for a company with 77,000 employees, for instance, required the approval of a seven-member management committee.
The recreational trail for instance, requires the construction of two bridges over the Capital Beltway.
The cheeseburger, for instance, requires the meat to be cooked sous vide for several hours.
You may be already using a customized distribution that, for instance, requires the use of hardware smartcards for you key.
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.
"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.
— but this codifies the rules, for instance requiring the agencies to publicly present lists of relevant questions and the means (down to the statistical methods) they are taking to answer them.
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.
