Investors are also pushing to add or raise hurdles, which require that general partners reach a certain threshold of returns before they start earning profits themselves.
They said they feared that some provisions of the bill, including new identification requirements, would raise hurdles to registration and voting by poor people and members of minority groups, especially Hispanics.
The use of hearsay evidence, which would be allowed in the tribunals under Mr. Bush's order, would not trouble some European nations, but would raise hurdles in the United Kingdom and Ireland, where it is forbidden, the senior European Union official said.
A leftist party that campaigns against the excesses of business has made notable inroads in recent German state elections, raising hurdles for the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is viewed as pro-business but has been sharply critical of the suspected tax evasion.
The Clean Water Rule raised hurdles for them.
Some of this selectivity can be imposed by raising hurdle rates and tightening assumptions around terminal values.
The FARC raised hurdle after hurdle, and in mid-January suspended talks entirely, insisting that the government must crack down on the paramilitaries.
For example, despite their median support levels of 68percentt of votes cast since 2000, proposals to reduce supermajority vote requirements are difficult to implement, since the thresholds for adoption are very high and are often based on shares outstanding (instead of votes cast), which raises the hurdle rate even further.
Raising the minimum wage raises the hurdle a worker must cross to justify being hired.
But now inflation if anything is slightly above where they'd like, and that raises the hurdle [for doing more QE]." "There is a parallel with Japan, which is that in the wake of a financial crisis the healing process takes time.
