The elasticity can be seen in the ability to grow without simultaneously growing a substantial administrative overhead.

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Such elements included a merit-based (non-aristocratic) military leadership combined with mass conscription, sophisticated taxation systems and a bureaucracy recruited from a permanent administrative cadre selected on the basis of ability rather than family connection.

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There you have a pure product of the French administrative elite, ENA graduate, famous their ability to defend any absurd thesis to get a good rank at the school.

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The timely formation of the government will make it possible to avoid uncertainty in the structures of federal executive authority and consequently to support the state apparatus's ability to work and preserve the speed set for reforms, including within the framework of administrative reform that has begun.

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He added there had been inconsistencies in the inspectors' ability to look at practice rather than administrative systems.

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The large increase in offers provided by small businesses is driven primarily by two factors: greater demand for coverage by workers due to individual penalties for being uninsured and the avail-ability of new, often lower-cost insurance options (because of administrative savings, for example) for small businesses that offer coverage on the exchanges.

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As economist Robert Shapiro noted in a recent Progressive Policy Institute study, these provisions entail significant administrative and compliance costs and, more damagingly from the standpoint of economic growth, undercut markets' ability to allocate capital to its most productive uses.

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