He further angered the union by bypassing the collective-bargaining process with a new policy that lengthened one of the shortest school days in the nation.
Like my predecessor, I've explicitly supported TARP, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Ben Bernanke, a weak-dollar policy, stimulus schemes, lengthened jobless subsidies, nationalizations, interminable wars, and regulatory assaults on Wall Street.
At the back end, however, where new or amended parole laws or policies might lengthen prisoners' sentences in exactly the same way if applied retroactively, courts have used a different standard and upheld the changes under the Ex Post Facto Clause.
Their opposition to joining the US and China in aggressive stimulus doesn't make much economic sense, echoing as it does the policies which deepened and lengthened the Great Depression of the 1930s.
These factors have led the administration's policy makers to lengthen their estimate of how long it would take Iran to accomplish what nuclear experts call "covert breakout" — the ability to secretly produce a workable weapon.
A lengthened and bureaucratic policy development process poses a risk of delays and calling for fresh evidence as issues change.
H&M lengthened its 30-day return policy–shoppers now have until Jan . 31to bring back holiday purchases.
(Martin Wolf was also scathing about the plan, seeing it as a recipe for financial crisis).Finally, Professor de Grauwe was also pretty dismissive of eurozone policy, saying that the focus on austerity had unnecessarily deepened and lengthened the recession.
From just over 300,000 inmates in state and federal prisons in 1978 the population has exploded to 1.57m today, the product of policies like "zero tolerance" and "three-strikes" which mandated jail terms for certain offences and lengthened sentences.
Attention spans lengthened.
