"It is unacceptable to give this industry special protection -- protection that has never been granted any other industry in our history, " said Sen.
Industry special pleading helps square legislators' hostility to online betting with their willingness to allow online state lotteries and online betting on horse racing.
When politicians grant special favors to a certain industry or a particular union, such decisions necessarily mean that market forces are being replaced by special-interest deal-making.
In that spirit I have a special message to our industry colleagues who are here today.
But even Mr Sarkozy has proved a hard-core national protectionist when it comes to special pleading by French industry.
But he makes it sound as if Mr McCain is doing special favours for an industry many Americans regard as villainous.
LDP's special friends in the building industry and down on the farm.
But a Forbes special report on this booming industry raises big concerns about how many of these claims are backed up by any evidence at all.
The debt-collection industry has garnered special attention because the FTC receives more complaints about it than any other, with third-party debt collectors generating 155, 640 complaints in 2011, up from 96, 102 in 2009.
We pay 20% tax on our profits, a further 0.5% on profits to the industry regulator and a special tax specifically on our buildings.
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Some people suggest that protecting an infant industry with tariffs is a special exception.
This limitation is especially glaring in those industries, such as the energy industry, that have received special attention from the administration.
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But Ed Roski is unique in that he has so masterfully exploited the special circumstances of 15-square-mile Industry to earn his place among the nation's richest men.
As in America, there is disagreement both within the industry and among politicians about whether special aid is needed and, if so, what form it should take.
Both bills represent significant improvement on the flawed rules that we have in place today, despite the furious effort of industry lobbyists to shape this legislation to their special interests.
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However, what disappoints me is the common, implicit assumption that industry science deserves to be treated as a special case, rather than considered within the broader framework of contemporary research.
Pushing it through entailed resorting to all the sharp practices he had vowed solemnly to expunge: appeasing special interests, such as the hospitals and the pharmaceuticals industry, and feeding pork to wavering allies.
The committee also recommended that the federal government levy a special assessment on investment banks to pay for any future industry bailouts, thus giving the bankers an incentive to support federal intervention only when a failure would present a true risk to the financial system.
He said numerous times he had proposed to close that special tax break and loophole for the oil and gas industry back in 1985 when he thought at the time that the need for that subsidization of the oil and gas industry had run its course.
Just a few months after the reform's passage, however, the industry of lobbyists was back urging that their clients' special provisions be added back to the law.
Among the top contributors are sectors with special interests, including banks, telecoms companies and the health-care industry.
So the proposed new six-lane bridge, with special lanes for preapproved traders, will be a great boon to the industry.
That is, while the SEC through its routine examinations of securities dealers and money managers and special investigations has over the decades accumulated a treasure trove of information regarding industry wrongdoing, the Commission has consistently and vigorously resisted making this damning information available to investors.
"The only major item that I know will not be represented is the Muppet that they made of me, " Mayor Michael Bloomberg joked at the news conference, where he bantered with Miss Piggy about the city's film and television industry and reminisced about their joint work in the 2008 TV special "A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa, " which featured Bloomberg as himself.
The train-building industry's lag in adopting practices common in manufacturing stems from its special legacy.
Its success has revived hopes for China's movie industry, which has struggled to compete against Hollywood's big budget, special-effect laden productions.
For starters, eliminating anything from the Code has become an exercise in futility in light of the army of special interest groups and professional lobbyists who fight on behalf of even the most narrow, industry-specific provisions contained in the law.
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Also remaining in the same posts were Daim Zainuddin (finance, special functions), Syed Hamid Albar (foreign), Rafidah Aziz (international trade and industry), Ling Liong Sik (transport) and Samy Vellu (works).
Although we have among the largest hedge fund complexes in the industry, we still see opportunities in, for example, long-short funds or special situations funds.
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