These may sound like decrees from the glossy pages of a fashion magazine, but in fact, they are missives from Starbucks' new employee dress code.
The court-approved agreement, known as the Consent Decree, sounds the alarm for other lagging states to follow suit and move towards inclusive modes of work, where people with disabilities are provided with support, training, interaction with the community and the same rights as typical employees.
While this particular decree may sound chilling for many corporations, it doesn't matter much in retail.
He added that he had found it ironic that the Hebrews in the Exodus scene were actually "Egyptian army guys" marching to a tune that DeMille decreed should sound like "Onward Christian Soldiers".
More playfully, this project imagines the design of these virtual worlds and characters as an astromusicological encounter with the Maxineans, wise extraterrestrial musicians who live in a distant region of space in which a spirit known as Maxine has corrupted local physics and decreed that all sound is motion.
Who is brave enough to say there was a decree and what it sounded like?
The term, he lamented to ABC News last year, "makes it sound like I'm going to issue some imperial decree".
When I asked Matthew Barge, the court-appointed monitor for the consent decree in Cleveland, about those public pronouncements, he sounded hopeful.
But as Ricardo Haussman, former chief economist of the Inter-American Development Bank (and a strong advocate of sound money), has pointed out, there is an answer: Simply issue a decree canceling the indexation.
"From the first, second, third and fourth editions all sound and sane expressions of opinion must be left out," he decreed.
It may sound like whining, but Congress did pass a law in 2007 decreeing that 500 million gallons of biodiesel be blended into the U.S. diesel supply in 2009.
