These fights involve sweeping issues of creativity, and narrow changes in copyright law.
Questions posed by the board members suggested they were leaning toward making narrow changes in the existing rules, like shortening amortization schedules or reducing the number of actuarial methods that plans may use.
There's always something new in this elemental landscape -- a river broadens or narrows, changes from chortling to sluggish; the weather in its mountain fickleness shifts from rain to sun, coloring peaks a rosy pink or picking out the delicate streaks of snow on gray stone; a mountain wrapped in fog throws it off just as we pass by, in a bravura farewell.
Thanks - Chris Dec. 16, 2000: Celebrating a Victory Mr. Long celebrates the bill's passage, crediting work by Enron and other players as Mr. Gramm, after getting certain narrow changes in the legislation, removes his hold and lets the bill go to a vote in the Senate.
Rather than focusing on narrow changes in criminal law, the commission's sweeping report goes beyond the issue of rape to assess widespread discrimination against women, societal biases against daughters, workplace sexual harassment, child sexual abuse, the trafficking of women and children and the deep-rooted problems with Indian policing.
Instead, as my testimony notes, a superior alternative would be to make narrow changes in surveillance laws to address the cybersecurity data sharing issue without carving unnecessary holes in existing privacy protections.
The President has proposed narrow changes which I support, including completely closing the coverage gap for seniors' prescription drugs, eliminating the special Nebraska funding provision, providing additional federal financing to all states to help pay for the expansion of Medicaid, and strengthening the Medicare waste, fraud, and abuse provisions.
In addition, since the K/L system of radiographic grading for OA does not differentiate between osteophytic and joint space narrowing changes of OA [ 23, 27], we separately evaluated the presence of osteophytes and of joint space narrowing for each subject, without regard to the K/L grade; first, we evaluated the osteophytes for all subjects, after that the joint space narrowing.
Changes in Mg2+ levels, which strongly influence the propensity for bridging and the magnitude of effects on RNAP over relatively narrow changes in concentration (2 mM to 8 mM; Figure 2) are thought to decrease in response to external Mg2+ levels during some bacterial infections (Groisman, 1998).
The phase preference of these dyes is a subtle equilibrium between the fluorescent part of the molecule, the acyl chains and the interaction with the surrounding lipids of the membrane, thus some narrow changes in molecular interactions may shift the probe partitioning.
