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...time the trials arrive, there will have only been two sanctioned races in the U.S.). There is also some sort of petition that needs to be submitted, so I need to figure that out as well. I think back to last year and the insane battle of red tape it took to get a rifle permit in Jersey City and feel some confidence. If I can convince the Jersey City police to let me have a gun, I can do anything...
...freely] refutes it. That was not the case under a real dictatorship like the Duvaliers." He has offered to hold the Senate elections again and has brought the opposition into his Cabinet. He pledges to privatize such industries as electricity, plug the poor into capitalism by slicing red tape and breathe 4% growth into the economy...
...Soto, 59, an economist, first cited the potency of shadow economies in his seminal 1989 book, The Other Path. His new work argues that most market-oriented reforms have failed to help the poor because clubby oligarchs and red tape have shut them out. In Peru it takes a year or more to legally start a business--and it costs, in government fees, 31 times the minimum monthly wage. To legally own a home in the Philippines, De Soto says, requires a wait of as long as 25 years and 168 often venal bureaucratic steps. As a result, the Third...
...more democratic presidents, De Soto's timing is propitious. His Third World clients hope that property-title reform will especially benefit industries like clothing, auto parts and agriculture--where the foreign-trade potential for extralegal businesses is enormous. Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide wants to slice through medieval red tape and legalize his nation's extralegal assets, which amount to $5.2 billion--four times its legal assets. "We would," he says, "finally put our people in partnership with the system and with foreign investors...
...that the show is built for suspense, and those who watch each week do so because they can be secure in the knowledge that they're not trying to outguess some over-appreciated TV writer with clichés for brains - this stuff unfolds like a live-on-tape sporting event (unless you believe the lawsuits) and all CBS can do is edit it to look like fictional television. Which it does very skillfully, even when there's no action whatsoever to work with...