Coping with the thicket of rules in this area would be a nightmare, but the rewards could be huge: last year PayPal's revenues amounted to $4.4 billion.Facebook's currency may also come in handy if the company makes a serious effort in social commerce, the buying of goods and services through social-networking sites.
Actually, there are more than enough rules to cover it; perhaps the confusion comes from the thicket of rules to be navigated.
But the thicket of rules and divisions of responsibilities at the United Nations are making it difficult to find a way to reopen the case, United Nations officials said.
Mr. Venizelos has told associates that a first priority is for the finance ministry is to hire more lawyers to navigate the thicket of rules and regulations governing asset sales in Greece.
Perhaps Graeber's most interesting claim, though, is that our expressed hostility toward bureaucracy is at least partly disingenuous: that these thickets of rules and regulations are a source, to quote from his subtitle, of "secret joys" for most of us.
The good news is that a new generation of startups is identifying and simplifying these thickets of rules, and the future of housing may be determined as much by machine learning as woodworking.
Simplifying the current thicket of rules makes sense.
Usually, though, they run slap into Germany's dense thicket of rules and laws.
Lockhart arrives, but a thicket of rules and regulations keeps him from seeing Pembroke at once, and the institute's overlord, Heinrich Volmer Jason Isaacss), induces Lockhart to stay and wait.
The bill would touch virtually every aspect of the financial industry, imposing, for instance, a thicket of rules for the trading of derivatives, the complex instruments at the center of the 2008 crisis.
