It enforces a tax regime that is even more stringent than Fatah's on the West Bank.Using tunnels to transport building materials, Hamas has begun to regenerate Gaza, transforming security bases into schools, turning training grounds into public parks, and levelling the Saraya, the Gaza City fortress from which the enclave's past rulers had governed, instead erecting a commercial complex.
While he was in Pittsburgh, Lerach met a young New York lawyer, Melvyn I. Weiss, who was in the process of transforming securities law, which defines the rights of shareholders.
Then there was the "biggest problem" — the Israeli occupation, never relaxed despite a transformed security situation; in fact intensified through settlement expansion, demolitions, evictions and military incursions even into areas nominally under Palestinian control.
I don't do this kind of work on a daily basis, but a few years ago I wrote a review essay on "resource wars" [The National Interest] and found that, for the most part, claims that resource competition would transform security and creates hordes of new dangers were bunk.
In the white paper, Japan said the change was a response to a "fundamentally transformed" security environment in which an armed attack against a foreign country could potentially threaten Japan.
Orszag (2001), related to U.S. Social Security, considered that transforming Social Security's delayed retirement credit (given to people working between the ages of 62 and 65 in the U.S). into a lump-sum payment rather than an increased monthly payment would likely encourage people to defer retirement.
This chapter explores the issues surrounding the social security shortfall and the proposals for transforming social security into a sustainable retirement system.
But transforming Social Security into individual retirement accounts would condemn some older people -- perhaps tens of millions -- to smaller pensions.
The cost of transforming Social Security would be astronomical, as high as $1 trillion over 10 years for partial privatization, by some estimates.
There appeared to be little to prevent the President from transforming Social Security, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, and making permanent the tax cuts he introduced in his first term.
To pay for Social Security (and much more), Mr Obama favours raising taxes for those earning more than $250,000, a measure that Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute has lampooned for transforming Social Security into a welfare plan.
