The bill makes it harder for federal and state law-enforcement officials to seize and hold property that has a suspected crime connection.
The more that a payment card becomes like a five-dollar bill, the harder it is for most people to see it as something special.
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The bill will make it harder and more expensive for small firms to get and enforce their patents.
The new bill will make it harder for individuals to declare Chapter 7, the most common form of bankruptcy, which allows debtors to walk away from their debts, often while shielding exempt assets like cars and homes.
The bill could make it harder for many Americans to pay their bills and purchase necessities like food and clothing, if they aren't able to reach into their pockets and pull out a card to pay for their purchases.
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But the new bill will make the battle a harder one for the industry.
What the bill does do is make it harder for pharmaceuticals companies to get around a built-in loophole.
John Wooden's UCLA Bruins basketball teams, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton roamed the floor, are harder to eliminate.
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The new Equalities Bill will have to do something much harder.
The bill had nothing in it that would make it harder to file suit or that limited damages.
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Topping the bill is the Conservative Richard Ottaway's Scrap Metal Dealers Bill, which tightens the regulations to make it harder for thieves to sell on looted metal.
The bigger a troubled bank, the less credible a government's claim that it will not intervene, the harder to manage the failure, and the bigger the final bill to taxpayers.
Banks, meanwhile, have uniformly raised rates ahead of the implementation of the federal CARD Act, a bill passed in May that banned certain fees and made it harder for college students to open credit card accounts.
And a bill called the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000 makes it harder than ever for a private citizen to buy a lighthouse at an auction, as Holman did.
Life gets harder for the bad guys, and the honest citizens, who ultimately pick up the bill for fraud, are protected.
If persuading the 15 members of the EU is going to be difficult, and winning agreement among all 147 members of the WTO still harder, then persuading the 535 members of Congress to keep their hands off a trade bill will be all but impossible.
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