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...initial actions were heard Friday in a speech at the Practising Law Institute in Washington. In what Schapiro calls her first two significant moves as chief, she is abolishing the agency's two-year-old failed "penalty pilot" experiment and dismantling a burdensome full-commission "pre-approval" process, which often delayed enforcement efforts "for weeks," she said. The announcements brought applause from the lawyers in attendance...
...more rapid approval of formal investigation orders and commission permission slips, Schapiro is now allowing SEC enforcers to more easily move from informal investigations to securing subpoenas for witness testimony and documents by abolishing the agency's onerous "pre-approval" process. The process, which began at the beginning of all serious investigations, required all five SEC commissioners to be present and "pre-approve" any major investigation. The problem: it often took weeks before all the commissioners could come together in one room...
...right. If I hadn’t known better, I would’ve thought a small child had gone around sticking these on for fun, but we had been strictly advised in an e-mail: “There are a total of 26 windows pre-approved by the Secret Service to be open for viewing for our floor. All other windows MUST have the shades CLOSED at all times. Please don’t open and close any shades from the approved 26 windows while the parade takes place. This will alarm the Secret Service Snipers allocated...
...sensuous chocolate-colored, polished-plaster foyer with a subtly lit, fiberglass staircase sweeping up into a spiral. And its location at Farnborough Airport in Hampshire, England - fast becoming the main European hub for private aviation - adds undeniable cachet. The hotel's opening in August was smartly timed too, pre-empting the centenary of the first officially recorded powered flight in Britain, made by Samuel Franklin Cody at Farnborough in October...
...During “The Laramie Project” pre-show panel, a show that I was fortunate to direct, Reverend Stephen Johnson noted that “The Laramie Project” is a play performed around the world. The reason why “The Laramie Project” was so popularly produced, he stated, was that people have found that the powerful message behind this one show is not just confined to one group of people in particular, but to all who face stereotypes and prejudice. The show is more popular and meaningful because of the diverse...