Named after the acid test for gold, it was developed in the spirit of Acid1, a relatively narrow test of compliance with the Cascading Style Sheets 1.0 (Cstandardndand, and was released on 13 April 2005.
They result in a less-efficient allocation of capital and slower growth, they add complexity to the tax code and raise the cost of tax compliance, and they narrow the corporate tax base and reduce corporate tax revenues.
It was compliance with that narrower order that was at issue in court today.
The 13,800 larger facilities, including refineries, chemical plants and large factories, will have to meet numerical targets for pollution reduction, although the agency said it had narrowed the standards to lower compliance costs.
The new President viewed the compliance problems as a narrow issue of law; it was the sole responsibility of the FISA court, not the White House, to oversee the programs.
The White House today seemed unwilling even to discuss a Canadian compromise proposal that would set a late March deadline for Iraqi compliance as a way to narrow the rift separating the United States and a group of nations led by France, Germany and Russia.
Frequently the estimated cost of a regulatory intervention is only the abatement expenditure (e.g. the cost per ton of emission reduction) which, as Kopp et al. [ 34] suggest is a narrow measure of the cost of regulatory compliance.
However, we agree with Teitel and Howse that a compliance centric approach is too narrow leading to inadequate scrutiny and "a tendency to oversimplify if not distort the relation of international law to politics" [ 6].
Robert N. Lowry Jr., deputy director of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, said the audits have too narrow a focus because they look only at compliance rather than larger fiscal issues.
Obesity related subcutaneous and periluminal fat deposits may alter compliance of upper airway walls and narrow the luminal area, thus increasing the likelihood of airway collapse when exposed to the intraluminal negative pressure caused by inspiration [ 5].
