A few years ago, it appeared to be a sure thing that a much milder rule on shareholder access would be adopted.
He eliminated the mild privacy rules put in place by Bill Clinton's Donna Shalala to require hospitals to get the written consent of patients before disclosing sensitive medical data to insurers, drug firms or others.
Instead, apart from one four-year interlude of (mild) military rule in the 1950s, Colombia since the mid-19th century has been ruled by only two parties, the Liberals and the Conservatives.
In reality, it did not really matter what government was in power in Khartoum, whether it was the mild military rule of Gen. El Ferik Ibrahim Abboud in 1964, the democratic government that followed his overthrow, the quasi-socialist, then Islamist military rule of Gen. Gaafar al-Nimeiry in the 1970s and 80s, or the Islamist regime of Omar Hassan al-Bashir that eventually followed him.
Asked what he thinks of Turkey's mild Islamist rule, a Nour spokesman snaps that his party had nothing to take from Turkey bar its economic model.Nour says it rejects Iranian-style theocracy, but equally rejects "naked" Western-style democracy.
But for milder problems, the rules create perverse incentives.
'I'm going to encourage some word fun in future, some breaking of rules, mild transgression'.
At a meeting last week of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, Russia vetoed a resolution urging it to stick to its promised withdrawals.A worrying twist for Georgia is that the new visa rules are milder for people in two breakaway bits of the country, the self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
In Poland, it ended with Soviet acquiescence in the coming to power of national communists who ushered in a much milder form of communist rule.
Screening rules for mild and severe depression are applicable to both males and females.
