These hurdles make it hard for startups to innovate in healthcare-related software and services, but Apple has advantages when it comes to finding its way through the thorny maze that is healthcare regulation, because of its influence on Capitol Hill and the size of its available resource pool – including its more than $160 billion in cash reserves.
Republicans have made it clear that erecting hurdles for Mr. Obama is, if anything, their overriding legislative goal.
Make some hurdles in the volcano.
Made his hurdles debut for us at Exeter in February and wasn't the best jumper you've ever seen.
The IMF recently projected losses for American banks over the same period would be $550 billion.Yet if the loss estimates look reasonable, as do the forecasts of the underlying earnings the banks will make, has the hurdle for capital been set too low?
All sorts of other considerations emotional, psychological, political, industrial come into play; some make for open fields, others for hurdles, and still others for stumbling blocks.
Her plan, similar in general terms to the one proposed by Vice President Al Gore, goes further than Mr. Gore's by setting aside more money for debt reduction and imposing legislative hurdles for making exceptions.
One reason, he said, was that Napster faced technological hurdles that make it difficult for it to screen out copyrighted works on a wholesale basis.
The low living standards and the bureaucratic hurdles that make it impossible for many migrants to work without paying bribes has led to tension and mistrust among Russians.
But several hurdles still make it hard for him to sell his pilsners, stouts and pale ales more widely, he says.Brewers are taxed heavily if they deliver their own beer.
