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.
None of the gay-rights-related cases that have come before him as a judge give any significant clues as to how he might rule on the weighty constitutional issues he will face next term.
As contract talks resumed yesterday between the New York City teachers' union and the Bloomberg administration, the topic turned from weighty matters of salaries and work rules to the decidedly more humble topic of carpet dust.
But, just as the road to hell is paved with good intentions, FCC rules occupy as many weighty tomes today as nine years ago.
As the highest-ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley of Iowa should be obsessing over the Constitution, the rule of law, and other weighty matters.
Now, those rules associate the new and weighty with other things: video, performance.
The question of why debt financing has traditionally received favourable tax treatment whereas equity financing has not, seems likely to be the result of historical forces at the time the tax rules were being developed, rather than any weighty economic reasoning pertaining to contemporary economic or business circumstances (Strebulaev and Whited 2012).
The pressure leaves Mr. Reid with a weighty decision: whether to ram through a change in the rules with a simple majority that would significantly diminish Republicans' power to slow or stop legislation.
First, we rule out worlds that weigh more than 13 times the mass of Jupiter, because such weighty objects are typically thought to be pseudo-stars, called brown dwarfs.
Talks are now supposed to move on to weightier topics, such as the shape of a new constitution or a framework for a reversion to civilian rule.
