Throughout this past year, and even over the last week, it has been easy to get mired in the myriad provisions of the multiple iterations of the health care bill.
Judy Waxman, vice president of health and reproductive rights at the National Women's Law Center, said the new health care overhaul law had the potential to sharply improve women's health through its myriad provisions, which expand Medicaid eligibility and bar gender rating on health insurance policies.
Next is helping to put into effect myriad new provisions of the soon-to-pass financial regulatory overhaul, including the absorption of the smaller Office of Thrift Supervision, the regulator that missed the failings at the American International Group's financial products arm and at the lenders Countrywide, Washington Mutual and IndyMac.
Some 20 different provisions cover myriad issues, including how the value of houses or apartments should be split between couples in a divorce.
On Monday, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow complained that the corporate tax bill has "a myriad of special-interest provisions that benefit few taxpayers," but he stopped well short of suggesting that Mr. Bush might veto it.
Lower tax rates on coupon-clipping income than on wages for work, the law that allows those hedge-fund titans to treat their work income as investment income ("carried interest") for tax purposes, the myriad "legitimate business expense" provisions of the tax code under which the rest of us subsidize the high life in executive suites and corporate jets — these, too, are "entitlements".
The Signos was evaluated by the Procedure Center, a unique operation responsible for the provision of myriad invasive medical procedures for inpatients and outpatients [3].
The board's leadership, these officials said, will recognize the need for a significant central staff to ensure compliance with a myriad of federal regulations, Civil Service provisions, contract and purchasing requirements and the needs of the nation's largest school system, with 1 million children, 75,000 teachers and thousands of other workers.
In October 2004, John Snow, then the Treasury secretary, described the bill as "a myriad of special-interest tax provisions that benefit few taxpayers and increase the complexity of the tax code".
South Africa is bound by legislation to prioritize NCD prevention and care for the elderly through provisions in its constitution and a myriad of laws with direct bearing on elderly care, including the Aged Persons Amendment Act of 1998, the Domestic Violence Act of 1998, the Housing Development Schemes Act for Retired Persons of 1988, and the Social Assistance Act of 2004.
One thing is for sure in Brussels (just as in Washington): the constitution's provisions on sport, animals, health and a myriad other issues will provide years of lucrative employment for lawyers.
