Over the past several decades, he argues, a thicket of spending obligations, rules and regulations has arisen, which limits individual discretion, narrows room for maneuver and makes it harder to assign responsibility.
It also explains why he left in the first place: because being a bookish kid made him a target for bullying, because his relationship with his father was oppressive, because he wasn't as comfortable as his sister in a world of traditions, obligations, rules.
No, says the NYSE: the inquiry concerns the negative-obligations rule.
The point-of-obligation rule was a relatively obscure agenda item, a top priority for almost nobody but Icahn.
To do that, though, they have to move before their customers putting them in danger, at least, of front-running or breaking the negative-obligations rule.
So leisure is licence, freedom - specifically, freedom from work and duties, allowing one to be at ease, to turn to pleasure, to lay obligations and rules aside.
Approved last June, they relieved the court of the obligation to rule on hundreds of arcane jurisdictional disputes that had clogged its agenda.
