Sales dropped about 9.3% in 2009 under the weight of ever higher taxes and antismoking laws.
The amendment tightens up the laws on higher education, homelessness, election campaigns and family rights.
Withering competition from a slew of low-cost Asian competitors has eroded operating margins, yet Sony is hobbled in Japan by high taxes, 40% higher power costs, antilayoff laws and wages more than ten times that of China.
They handed in their 630-page report on 23 January in which they suggested amendments to criminal laws to provide for higher punishment to rapists.
Many issuers have their headquarters in South Dakota or Delaware which have fewer consumer protections and laws that enable issuers to charge higher interest rates.
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We read the precedents differently and see that initiating an impeachment process for only the third time in American history takes a far higher threshold than simply making a laundry list of laws a president may have violated.
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In those talks, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is expected to press China to let its currency adjust higher while pressing for better enforcement of copyright and patent laws.
One, it is vulnerable to provision of the Durbin Amendment, a set of laws that among other things allows banks to levy higher fees on small debit card transaction.
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These include laws to prevent money laundering, checking corruption, protecting women from sexual harassment at workplace, protecting whistle blowers, amending laws relating to banking and marriage, and regulating higher education, among other things.
Their prices track higher with higher oil prices, and can never be cheaper because of the laws of thermodynamics.
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The traditional reasons given for the higher natural rate of unemployment are better social security, stricter labour laws, minimum wages, lower labour mobility, and some others.
More to the point, if the employers are able to negotiate to hire more workers at a lower salary that will be more expansionary than if union contracts, minimum wage laws or social convention leads them to hire fewer workers at higher salaries.
These issues are notoriously complicated, the laws are hard to enforce, and the stakes could not be higher.
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It recently passed laws raising the minimum wage and requiring large employers such as Wal-Mart to pay higher employee health care insurance costs.
The issue has raised attention on overall gun deaths in the country, with supporters of tougher gun laws noting that more than half all homicides involve firearms and U.S. levels are higher than other countries.
Groups favouring stricter immigration laws say the reforms under consideration would exacerbate financial problems for state and local governments and would lead to higher levels of illegal immigration.
He used the phrase "common ground" repeatedly, speaking of potential agreement on a higher minimum wage (if paired with tax cuts for small businesses) and seeing prospects for sweeping change in immigration laws and the management of Social Security.
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