To enable the Railroad Retirement Board to adjust the amount of benefits payable under the Railroad Retirement Act at the time the cost of living adjustment is applied.
He is critical of the length of time it has taken the company to act.
He ridiculed the prevailing legal view of the time that the Sherman Antitrust Act protected small merchants against large.
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For the first time since passage of the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, polling reveals that more Americans support the requirement that all Americans purchase health insurance than those who oppose the measure.
My years at the SEC and in the mutual fund industry has required me to spend a great deal of time studying loopholes in the Act which, if eliminated, would enhance investor protection but which the industry has long opposed closing.
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In fact, Prachee has been able to add 20 part-time and full-time workers because of the Recovery Act.
At the time, Rashomon, the tale of a violent act refracted through the conflicting testimony of four witnesses, was a significant act of diplomacy.
Now, at 66, the former Tory party whip is taking on a role that offers new, but no less difficult, challenges as he attempts to guard the BBC's independence and at the same time act in the best interest of licence fee payers.
Within a month of that decision, Congress passed the Ledbetter Act, which modified the time limit for when a charge of discrimination needs to be filed in certain cases, and the workers filed a motion to alter judgment in the case.
That solemn responsibility is shared by us as human beings, by us as Americans, and by us as men and women of the Department of Defense, who could be asked, when the time comes, to act, to make sure that it never happens again.
The audio of her three-hour interview with investigators, as well as 324 pages of documents and more than 600 crime scene photos, were released for the first time in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Associated Press.
At the time, Kerry also said he thought the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional because it violated the "full faith and credit" clause that requires states to recognize each other's laws -- one of the arguments Bush made Tuesday for why a constitutional amendment was needed.
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Moreover, it's not only the billions of mostly wasted dollars that are burdensome but also the time top managers must spend in trying to comply with the act instead of focusing on running their businesses.
The Pension Protection Act of 2006 for the first time may allow insurers to combine long-term care policies with individual variable annuities.
Finally, a clear indication that for the first time in the 21st century, the President of the United States will act like it's the 21st century.
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Reaction is understandably mixed, and it will be some time before the dust settles and the true economic impact of the Relief Act can be measured.
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Simply put, the time is overdue to implement the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990.
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The answer is still yes, but the scale of action needed is growing even as the time to act is running out.
Over short periods of time, the markets do not act in a rational manner.
In a time of crisis, the urge grows to act boldly and decisively.
Balfour Beatty, which had the contract to maintain the track at the time of the accident, has admitted a charge under the Health and Safety Act.
The newer (and, unsurprisingly, Church-endorsed) view is that Galileo made needless trouble for himself by being impolitic, and that, in the circumstances of the time, it would have been hard for the Church to act otherwise.
Mr. Olson said the case could head to the Supreme Court in the same time frame as a separate challenge to the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, passed at a time when Republicans occupied the White House and controlled Congress, authorized the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to perform comparative effectiveness research.
Every trader in America will try and short this gap open and sell the banks, which has been the right trade most of the time over the last few weeks, but things do not always act the same.
By the time we next elected AMs, Labour had used the 2006 Government of Wales Act to ban dual candidacy.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, for example, included 56 tax provisions (20 related to individual taxpayers), and The Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 revised the First-Time Homebuyer Credit, causing untold confusion.
In 2008, Congress passed the PRO IP Act, which for the first time allowed the use of civil asset forfeiture in copyright cases.
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The cuts can be phased in over time, and leaders on both sides of the aisle know they can act after March 1 to undo any reductions in the months to come.
Samuels has been fighting the battle against dangerously broad patents for some time now, recently traveling to DC to support passage of the SHIELD Act (Saving High-tech Innovators from Egregious Legal Disputes), a congressional bill that would impose heavy fines against so-called patent trolls.
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