Republican opponents said the requirements would be onerous and costly.
In case any of those measures should fail, Mr. Bloomberg has identified $500 million more in contingency cuts that he acknowledges would be onerous.
The industry's main trade group, the Securities Industry Association, called them tough and necessary for maintaining trust, but said they would be onerous for smaller firms.
These were unprecedented notions on which to build a political system, and seemingly contradictory ones at that, so Washington knew that living up to them would be onerous.
Conservative MP David Morris, the government's ambassador for small businesses, warned that the self-employed were concerned the new system would be onerous and lead to overpayments in some cases.
A9 Meeting on Altered Food Negotiators trying to forge the first global treaty regulating trade in genetically modified products have tentatively agreed to eliminate some of what the United States Government feared would be onerous restrictions on American farm exports.
At one point in his address, Mr. Bloomberg appeared to bristle at a question from a reporter on whether the cost of implementing the new rules would be onerous.
Bob Johnson, executive director of the Outdoor Amusement Business Association, the 4,000-member 4,000-memberzatradeorganizationval industry, cofplained thet the proposed legislation would make New Jersey's amusement ride safety law the toughest in the nation, and said he feared that the amount of reporting would be onerous to the operators.
Oxy's board of directors recommended against the proposal, noting that the company is a member of several trade groups and that a review of all those memberships would be onerous, given that the reputational risk seemed only to be with Alec.
