These are voluntary moves and, unlike either the sequester or the notion of forcibly cutting Congress's pay or the President's, smart ones.
The chemicals were once popular in aerosol sprays, plastic foams, refrigerants and firefighting equipment, but have nearly all been phased out under voluntary moves by industry and the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
Offshore centres are starting to sign up, calculating that a voluntary move now may mean better terms.
The voluntary move would be retroactive to March 1, the official said, and apply through the rest of the fiscal year, which ends in September.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, has called for a voluntary move from the employer-based system to one granting tax benefits to those who buy their own insurance.
Ron Paul, who was serving in the House at the time, chimed in to say that describing it as a voluntary move was silly: "He didn't have the votes".
One voluntary move involves Rochelle Klein, an award-winning copywriter, who is leaving Tierney Communications in Philadelphia, a unit of True North Communications where she had been executive vice president and chief creative officer for almost two years.
Joe Cabaleiro, executive director of the Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board, said that the New England center had never applied for accreditation as meeting the industry's quality standards — a voluntary move that only 162 out of about 3,000 compounding pharmacies have done so far.
An official, mealy mouthed press release implied it was a voluntary move by Page; however, we had been told differently, and this week an email from his agent confirmed what we already knew from our sources: that Page was, in effect, pushed out.
ROCHESTER, N.H., July 31 — Rudolph W. Giuliani on Tuesday called for transforming the way health care coverage is provided in the United States, advocating a voluntary move from the current employer-based system to one that would grant substantial tax benefits to people who buy their own insurance.
The voluntary move to cut greenhouse-gas emissions is particularly noteworthy, some environmental experts said, because it comes even though the companies have no guarantee that they will get credit for cuts they make now under future regulations or in future systems set up to allow trading of credits given to companies that reduce their output of gases below required levels.
