So, once reform is repealed, the leaders are vowing to reinstate such provisions as letting young people stay on their parents' plans until age 26, preventing insurers from canceling policies after people become sick, and barring insurers from placing caps on what they will pay.
Still, a recent national poll by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation found that large shares of people became more supportive when told about such provisions as tax credits for small businesses that offer coverage, exchanges where people could choose among competing policies, and rules against denying coverage.
Laws already passed have permitted companies to offer shares with differential voting rights, to grant stock acquisition rights through options and warrants, and to set up such provisions as a "poison pill" to be deployed in the event of a takeover bid.On the other hand, the law has defined the proper purposes of such measures as well as the need for shareholder meetings to approve them.
Bioethicists looking at "biobanks" have focused on the problems prospective research poses for consent, and the adequacy of such provisions as opting in or opting out, waiving or giving blanket consent, withdrawing or renewing consent, etc. (Helgesson and Johnsson 2005; Shickle 2006).
An ex-manager of a Menards store, now suing for age discrimination, had a contract containing such provisions as a 60% cut in pay should his store be unionized, a $100 cut in his bonus if a "mystery shopper" sent by Menards security was able to shoplift $1,000 in goods, and dozens of fines for "performance infractions," e.g., $5 if employees' lunchboxes weren't inspected when they left.
Critics see such provisions as a cynical collusion between politicians and big-city labor interests.
It provides: "If...the Security Council of the United Nations call upon His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom to apply any measures to give effect to any decision of that Council, His Majesty may by Order in Council make such provision as appears to Him necessary or expedient for enabling those measures to be effectively applied... .....
To insist on such provisions could, as is the administration's and Ryan's real and legitimate concern, scuttle the trade deal on which they've been working for years, though that's not at all a slam dunk.
In previous agreements, such as NAFTA, such provisions were relegated to side agreements that were virtually unenforceable.
But he conceded that most such provisions contemplated partial damage -- such as damage from a fire -- not the complete destruction of structures.
Ms Hunt said that parents were being forced to make impossible decisions between such basic provisions as providing an adequate meal or putting on the heating.
