Another law, a double-taxation treaty, gives tax breaks to companies based in yes Cyprus, which explains why one in every four companies registered in Moscow nominally has its headquarters in that distant island.
San Francisco, for example, nominally has a funded ratio of 87%, according to its most recent actuarial report, with an unfunded amount of $3.3 billion.
One of her employees nominally has the social networking responsibility, but she's swamped, too, and so is everyone else there, so posting had been helter-skelter.
The Coalition Provisional Authority nominally has the job of "rebuilding" Iraq -- using $20 billion or so of the $78 billion that recently flew out of America's deficit-plagued coffers.
Though Mr. Medvedev nominally has the higher office, he has not held such question-and-answer sessions, and while Mr. Putin was holding court, Mr. Medvedev spent Thursday on a trip to Italy.
He will tell what is likely to be at best a sceptical audience that although the party nominally has 3 million affiliated trade unionists, the reality is is the "vast majority play no role in our party.
Inside local housing offices, instead of grim-faced bureaucrats, you will find smiling officials behaving like estate agents offering this month's top ten rentable houses.Newcastle City Council, for example, nominally has a list of 10,400 people wanting a house.
Under the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Congress established the undersecretary for science position, which nominally has responsibility for all science in the non-weapons programs in DOE, but controls the budget only of the Office of Science, currently $4.8 billion.
