According to the cynical Mehta, it's a form of social control, a state-sponsored scheme "to pacify hundreds of millions of desperately horny young Indians of the lower social classes", a tool to combat "rogue Hindu testosterone".
"That is the state-sponsored system.
"It's been a quagmire," Mr. Walden said, criticizing officials' "indecisive and inconsistent" responses to revelations that some 1,000 Russian athletes were implicated in state-sponsored doping schemes.
In India, federal- and state-sponsored insurance schemes were seen as instrumental to enhancing private-sector participation in health-care delivery in locations beyond large cities.
Although some 50 companies qualified for state-sponsored workout schemes, not all of these have been successful: creditors have so far had to write off loans to a dozen of them.
We advance the idea that by making the receipt of unemployment benefits conditional on engagement in an incentive-enhancing activity (for example, work under state-sponsored employment schemes or participation in work-site-based training programs), a government can engineer a revision of the reference groups of an unemployed individual in order to induce him to seek work.
Three years after Russia's drug-testing agency was banned over one of the largest and most egregious state-sponsored doping schemes in the history of sport, it's back in business, authorized by the World Anti-Doping Agency to certify that the same Russian athletes it so recently helped cheat are clean.
They see, in such known inducers of docility as urns of hosta and bright-colored plastic chaise longues (which, after much hostility, have been replaced with standard-issue metal chairs), a sort of state-sponsored tranquillization scheme.
The Democrats inserted limits to pay packets for senior banking executives while the Republicans won the creation of a state-sponsored insurance scheme intended to guarantee against future defaults.
The executive board of the World Anti-Doping Agency made the move despite a series of independent investigations that found Russia had orchestrated a vast, state-sponsored doping scheme that tainted the Olympics and other major sports events.
