In education, as in far too many walks of Italian life, it is grey power that rules.
In a recent case that has been little noted in the business press, the Supreme Court appears to have given the IRS broad new power to write rules that overturn prior court decisions, give short shrift to expressed legislative history, and apply even in cases where taxpayers have relied in good faith on prior law and precedent.
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But the Local Government Association (LGA) wants MPs to give individual councils the power to reject the rules.
Congress does have the power to write new rules for interstate commerce.
Dan Mica, a former Democratic congressman from Florida and now chief executive of the Credit Union National Association, says the party in power will tweak lobbying rules, making influence more transparent.
Tax officials will also be given more power to enforce the existing rules.
By design, the Internet's power stems from its simple rules and communal nature.
In addition to the rules about new power plants, it will soon have to produce an emissions policy for existing facilities.
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The CFPB will have the power to set and enforce rules on credit cards as well as mortgages and other consumer loans.
They are about to grow rapidly, thanks to new environmental rules (solar power, LED lights and electric cars) or exploding demand in emerging markets (medical devices and drugs).
Although Obama did implement some new lobbying rules upon taking power, he has shown minimal interest in the procedural problems that he highlighted on the campaign trail: the power of interest groups, the role of private money in campaigns, the revolving door between K Street and Capitol Hill and more.
The new boss wants to speed the process up and introduce new voting rules to boost the power of emerging economies.
Due to the concern that gas generation has grown rapidly and yet the rules for gas and power markets are different, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission held regional hearings on market syncing issues in 2012.
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Rather, the goal should be to change the rules, allocate the power to tax profits to every country where these companies have operations, and acknowledge that in the data-driven economy, users themselves have become part of these operations.
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They seem to believe that Britain's place in the EU could be revised, so that, for example, power over some social and employment rules is repatriated, without affecting the country's place in the single market or that market's complexion.
But what they really are looking at is the EPA to soon release or formalize, finalize its carbon-based pollution regulations for future power plants and then to get quickly on the task of putting together some of the regulatory rules under the Clean Air Act for existing power plants.
Federalism, a divided legislature, temporary investiture of power in the executive and the procedural rules of governance all promote stasis.
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Margaret Thatcher was the first to understand that the monetarists were right, following their rules when she came to power in 1979, taming inflation and reinvigorating the British economy.
They argue, therefore, that people with power that they think is justified break rules not only because they can get away with it, but also because they feel at some intuitive level that they are entitled to take what they want.
Power generation operates in a free market (subject to all the usual rules on safety etc) and the price which the grid can charge for carrying the power is regulated.
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She supports the Dodd-Frank rules that would give regulators the power to break up banks through forced restructuring or bankruptcies.
The EPA said utilities would have a three-year window to bring their with power plants into compliance with the new pollution rules.
Negotiations must begin at both the EU and OECD level to obtain new rules on the allocation of taxation power and change bilateral tax treaties.
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The administration says that he has the power as Commander in Chief to set the rules for these military tribunals and that the Supreme Court doesn't have jurisdiction to intervene.
The Environmental Protection Agency has just announced that it will not meet a Sept. 30 deadline to issue new rules limiting emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants.
In the Senate the rules may appear to give him great power--Senators are required to sit completely mute and put in writing any question they have for witnesses so he can read it aloud--but in fact he has no power to decide anything.
Europe is moving beyond power into a self-contained world of laws and rules and transnational negotiation and cooperation.
Global criminal activities are transforming the international system, upending the rules, creating new players, and reconfiguring power in international politics and economics.
Is it an invasion of our children's privacy to intercept or check their text messages, or have the rules changed for parents because of the pure power and danger of technology?
New rules are also needed to make the voting power of each country in the council more proportionate to its size: the present system gives small countries a disproportionately big say.
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