"Never have I seen so many small technicalities and rules used to delay," he added.
The rules used to be simple: Don't mess with someone's turf.
As that insidious guidebook "The Rules" used to recommend to wishful single girls, it's a "creature unlike any other".
(One of T.W.A.'s cardinal rules used to be that refuse must be carried away on a silver tray).
But federal rules used to carry out the law say the peer review organization may disclose information about a doctor only "with the consent of that practitioner".
'The rules used to be that you didn't hurt innocent people, inform on anyone and sort out problems within the code,' he said.
"If you go back in our history, you can find voter registration rules used to exclude blacks or immigrants from voting.
The accounting rules used to calculate the pension information in United's annual report require all companies to combine their various employees' pension plans into a single set of aggregate numbers, making it impossible to track individual plans.
In its report, the panel found that existing rules used to approve many devices were never intended to play the critical role of screening out dangerous or ineffective products.
When a constitutional court was weighing a challenge to the electoral rules used to elect the Parliament, Anne W. Patterson, the American ambassador, repeatedly urged the generals not to seize the chance to dissolve it, officials said.
Yet, in a city where traffic rules used to be viewed as entirely optional, a dozen pedestrians all stayed rooted on the sidewalk, waiting obediently in the rain as a red light counted down the 160 seconds they needed to wait before crossing.
