If you want something to be angry about, be angry at the arbitrary nature of federal ERISA and COBRA laws.
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That is, rather than announcing plans to stop printing money at an arbitrary date or dollar figure, the Fed announced it would continue printing money until an economic recovery got under way.
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However, if a pattern develops of penalties that seem to arrive at an arbitrary number instead of one that bears some relation to the harm caused by the offending conduct, that would be cause for concern.
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In fact, America's retirement finances would be in far better shape at the end of the (arbitrary) 75-year time-span if his system were in place.
The researchers' hypothesis was that the meaning of expressions has been hard-wired by evolution whereas the meaning of gestures is learnt and, at least to some extent, is arbitrary.
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However, many of these extra costs of clinical sequencing will be further inflated by regulatory demands (at least some of which will be arbitrary and pointless), and many will only apply if you obtain your genome through the medical system.
Caps on section size may be more arbitrary than evidence-based (at least for section sizes up to 30 based on courses in our sample).
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The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.
Ultimately, such a model arrives at a cross roads where it has to either limit access in an arbitrary way, or face uncontrolled cost increases.
The free market, not government officials, should dictate the quantities of goods and services produced and the prices at which they are sold because the decisions of governments officials necessarily will be arbitrary in relation to those of the market.
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Prof Henry Maitles, head of the education department at the University of the West of Scotland, agrees that 18 is an "arbitrary" age to decide on adulthood and says that some places have gone further in order to ensure responsible behaviour.
It's not clear at this point why a year-old system is being stifled by this seemingly arbitrary restriction, but with the PlayStation 3 offering developers Bluetooth out of the box, it seems that Microsoft either needs to change its tune or risk losing the small-but-vocal "rocker wannabe" demographic to the enemy.
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It is at odds with FIA president Max Mosley over what the teams see as his autocratic and arbitrary governance of the sport, among a number of other issues.
Earlier this week, delegates at the Liberal Democrat conference in Birmingham passed a motion calling on their MPs to oppose the "arbitrary" time limit, contained in the Welfare Bill, and the plans are likely to face stiff opposition in the Lords.
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