Karel Van Miert, a Belgian who is responsible for antitrust policy, has completed a white paper on reforms to the working of competition law, and hopes to rule on a weighty list of mergers before his term is up.
But critics offer a weighty list of objections, chief among them that removing the waste from one community's back yard requires putting it in another's, creating more contaminated sites requiring future cleanup.
With this weighty list and other cases to examine, it will be claimed today that corruption has in fact become an everyday part of British national life.
Weighty lists putting forth the supposed greatest of anything seem particularly suited to a globe-dominating behemoth like Apple, and to the world of branding in general: after all, what brand wouldn't want to be associated with the best?
If Hudgens decides to add a college degree to her repertoire, she would join a weighty and impressive list of celebs with higher education degrees, including Eva Longoria, Jennifer Garner, Natalie Portman, Rachel McAdams, and many others.
("What makes soda fizz? What are the basic ingredients of soda pop?") But for a much more single-minded group of single-digit New Yorkers, there is an obsession far weightier and a list of questions vastly more difficult.
Only 42 when he became leader in 2003, unattached to any of the party's old power factions, and with a list of weighty books on public policy to his name, he represented a fresh bid by Labor to end a long losing streak.
These are important areas, but there is a long list of weightier issues – capital flight, tax regimes, climate change and improved global business regulation, to name but a few.
Sir Alan, who is also chairman of the Justice Committee, added that the Government has also fought attempts to add more weighty public roles to the list of appointments that are automatically subject to scrutiny.
A user of custom timelines could create a list of anything on Twitter, from news about major events, like the destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, to less weighty matters like the best cat jokes ever tweeted.
His impressive list of screen credits, including roles in Atonement and Made in Dagenham, Red Riding and Ashes to Ashes, is matched by an equally weighty stage CV – Mays has appeared in six productions at the Royal Court.
