Nothing brings out the comedic impulse like a 2, 000-plus-page financial reform act.
Yes, I know Washington pols recently set in motion the law of unintended consequences by passing a 2, 300-page Financial Meddling Act of 2010.
Congress recently passed the 2, 319-page Dodd-Frank Act to clean up the financial industry and save us from another blowup.
But the 157-page American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 is business-as-usual.
FORBES: Why All The Green Pork In A Deal Meant To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff?
Punters are hoping the just-opened National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing (see story on page 30) will act to boost the economy and help red chips.
It took less than three pages in the 157-page American Taxpayer Relief Tax Act Of 2012 to resolve all the estate tax uncertainty.
FORBES: Finally, Estate Planners Can Read The Tax Code -- Not The Tea Leaves
On June 26 the House passed the 1, 300-page American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 by a hair's margin (219 to 212).
But a so-called congressional page scandal, who failed to act before ABC broke the story, has gripped the American public in a way that money corruption has not.
Beginning on page 170 Brigid McMenamin details how six people act as their own money managers.
In a statement on his Facebook page, the president warned that security forces would "act with utmost decisiveness" to protect state institutions and those groups behind the violence would be held "politically accountable".
BBC: Cairo police beating: Victim Hamada Saber blames police
The video shows Ohanian trying to call Google CEO Larry Page to urge him to oppose the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
Congress' just-passed 650 page corporate tax bill, known as the "American Jobs Creation Act, " has been rightly skewered for its pork, with handouts to cruise lines, shipbuilders, railroads, Nascar track owners and tobacco growers, among others.
According to the Electronic Freedom Foundation, social networks are being used by federal investigators, and last week the privacy organization released a 38-page PDF training course (obtained through the Federal Freedom of Information Act) that the EFF said was used for conducting investigations via social networks.
"I like the fact that by going with her, they weren't going with some glamour girl who's in magazines and trying to act like she's 25, " Wilson says of Page.
Green named the victim on his Facebook page and the court was told he accepted that it was an "act of utter stupidity" and that he did not realise it was in essence a form of publication.
BBC: Ched Evans: Nine admit naming rape victim on social media
In ACT TWO , as Hyllos and Iole are amorously engaged, a page arrives with a message for Iole, from Hercules.
The online chatter also prompted Games Workshop to put a statement about the row on its Facebook page, in which it said it had "no choice" but to act in cases where its trademarks in a commercially available product were being used without its consent.
For centuries, reading has largely been a solitary and private act, an intimate exchange between the reader and the words on the page.
The next day people in Manila read that a group of retired generals and other military officers had earlier urged the armed forces, in a two-page manifesto, to "assist" the beleaguered Estrada in performing the "heroic act" of resigning.
In celebration of the one- year anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, Wisconsin GOP Senator Ron Johnson has taken to the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal to reinvigorate the misinformation campaign against health care reform as he continues to press the death panel narrative.
FORBES: Senator Ron Johnson's WSJ Op-Ed Revives Death Panels And Misleads On Health Reform
If European producers get their act together, their fortunes could be transformed by the arrival of this new sort of market (see page).
应用推荐