Lord Adonis, the IFG's boss and former Labour Transport Secretary, argued that London would not have had the Olympics, or Crossrail - the multi-billion rail tunnel through the heart of the city - or its congestion charge system, without an elected mayor.
Those of us who have supported financial capitalism are open to the charge that the system we championed has merely enabled a few spivs to get rich.
One sensible reform would be for the central government to take charge of the pension system.
Boris Fedorov, currently in charge of the tax system and much liked by the West, has already been promoted.
As I understand it, the 'Hot Spot' people charge more for their system when DRS is in place, while Hawk-Eye does not.
It will enhance the scientific credibility of the process, as UNESCO is the specialized agency of the UN system in charge of science.
The city would remain in charge of implementing the new system, Mr. Cuomo said.
More important, the health care system tends to charge not what things cost but what they're worth.
It added that the updates would be offered to all purchasers of its ProNav PNN420 system free of charge.
Currently, the immigration and asylum tribunals system does not charge an appeal fee.
The implicit charge was that the financial system was flawed and required broader regulation to keep it out of trouble.
He also allowed holders of individual accounts to switch back to the state system at no charge (1.2m did so).
About two years ago, he got a local technology contractor to install a payment processing system called PC Charge, made by VeriFone Systems Inc.
That market power has allowed New York-Presbyterian to charge higher prices to insurers, because our employer-sponsored insurance system pressures insurers to accept whatever hospitals want to charge.
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From April, unused bedrooms in social housing will be subject to an under-occupation charge under changes to the benefits system.
That system allowed wholesalers to charge whatever the market would bear but capped the amount retail consumers could be billed.
The Nielsen rating system, used to charge for ads and to determine which shows live and die, will be under pressure.
Basically any transaction occurring in the financial system will have a charge attached to it on both sides of the transaction.
State help will be limited to reforming the lengthy licensing process, streamlining the planning system and levying a charge on nuclear operators to pay for decommissioning and waste storage.
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Riders can pay a discounted season fee or use the Pay by Phone system to pay the charge which will be introduced across the borough gradually, starting in the West End.
He points out that only works when one party (or coalition) is in charge, whereas "in a system built around an administration and a bicameral Congress, everybody is part of the government - and the government only functions if there exists a certain baseline spirit of co-operation between the mutually indispensable parts".
Reforming the system to allow universities to charge what they want would yield treasure indeed.
The United States is leading the international charge to implement a key-escrow system.
Such a charge, whether a tax or a system of tradable permits to pollute, would change energy economics radically.
Because the current system puts bank regulators in charge of protecting consumers.
This is made worse by an odd pricing system, under which firms charge a fixed amount, instead of billing their customers by the hour.
They will still be able to do so, but may still face a tax charge for the time still in the system since 7 January.
Daffron of Logical Expressions said Amazon should charge for uploads to the Kindle publishing system because that would remove a lot of the financial incentive for spammers.
Rohm's Wireless Power Transmission system also allows you to charge or power devices by placing them anywhere on the pad, rather than directly over charging positions, and it supports much greater transmission, with one prototype outputting up to 100 watts.
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