In recent years anti-discrimination and unfair-dismissal rules have been tightened, and minimum wages raised, in many rich countries.
"They're now being tightened the absolute minimum each time," he explained as a producer herded the models into a lineup for rehearsal.
Product development cycles are nowadays tightened to the minimum and submitted to a growing competitive pressure.
However, despite this saving, and falling house prices, the CML's figures show first-time buyers have needed to find more savings to get on the housing ladder as lenders have upped minimum deposits and tightened lending criteria.
In March, for example, Indonesia tightened loan-to-value ratios on mortgages and imposed minimum downpayments on car and motorbike loans.Mr Neumann is, however, sceptical that regulatory tightening can substitute for the monetary kind.
In the second pilot the individual intervention was yoked to the group timetable and procedures tightened such no potential participants undertook initial assessments until a minimum cohort size had been identified as willing and eligible.
The rules tend to become a maximum as well as a minimum, and tighten the straitjacket within which designers of homes have to work.
They have tried to focus attention on areas where they say the Senate Republicans have blocked progress in Albany, including measures to protect women's rights, raise the minimum wage, tighten gun laws and overhaul campaign-finance laws.
The market took a big hit in the recession when consumers and businesses tightened their belts and cut spending on upgrades and new equipment to a minimum.
While China instituted a minimum wage system in 1994, enforcement of compliance with the law was significantly tightened only in 2004; the results described below are based on post-2004 data.
