By far the best approach would be to bring in a sensible minimum retirement age: short vesting periods mean that Brazilians draw their pensions absurdly early, in the private sector on average at age 53.
Software bloat and users' increasing desire to use multiple programs at once make 128 a more sensible minimum, and 256 or more are not out of the question, particularly if you do a lot with graphics or video.
All they want are sensible, responsible minimum standards on terms and conditions, and health and safety.
"I'd like particular advice on buying a property; when a good time would be, whether interest rates are going to increase significantly, whether to go for a fixed-rate or tracker mortgage, what the minimum sensible deposit would be, and so on," Simon says.
Furthermore, the higher the cost of the underlying real estate, the taller a building needed to be to generate a suitable return on the investment, and the minimum sensible commercial height for a skyscraper project grew to between 40 and 45 stories.
A sensible fee structure would set minimum and maximum fees, create a sliding scale based on household income and family size, and consider other factors like the ages of the applicants and school enrollment of minors.
At a time when government is committed to reducing any unnecessary use of imprisonment, and shrinking prison numbers back to an unavoidable minimum, is it sensible to open up to market forces and risk growing vested interest?
Don't get me wrong -- at a minimum, the only sensible offshore drilling policy would be to permanently protect both Atlantic and Arctic waters from drilling and allow no new drilling the Gulf of Mexico.
The government has not set a high minimum wage, but a sensible one.
Still, despite what the pro- business right would have you believe, increasing the minimum wage is a sensible thing to do.
Part of the sweeping tax reforms of 1986, the minimum tax is a sensible rule requiring corporations that have used loopholes and deductions to reduce their tax bills to zero to pay at least something to the federal Treasury.
