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29 Apr 2011, 6:22 am by Gritsforbreakfast
But now that dedicated money is becoming just another General Revenue source, making the fig leaf that fees aren't taxes that much more implausible. [read post]
22 Jul 2007, 3:56 pm
Adams became a Potemkin village with just enough connection to the heartland to give Deere a fig leaf of plausible deniability to hide their nakedness. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 10:26 pm by Linda Moss
Money for the development of the concussion-recovery app was  provided by the University of Michigan Health System Fostering Innovative Grants Program (FIGS). [read post]
Live, and Oceanwide Real Estate Group’s purchase of the Fig Central site in Downtown’s South Park neighborhood. [read post]
7 Sep 2014, 9:35 pm by Ann R. Klee
The federal courts have often used Chevron as a fig leaf to avoid reviewing agency decisions, especially on technical matters. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 6:41 am by Michael Froomkin
Once a great offbeat local attraction known as Parrot Jungle, the management sold their lovely grounds in Kendall for a development and with the fig leaf that it would be good for jobs, development, and tourism, they got the City of Miami to give them a loan not even a bank would have agreed to. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 8:42 pm
Memo to Rivera: National banks don't give a flying fig about a "blot in the eye" (whatever you may think that means). [read post]
22 Nov 2014, 4:12 pm by INFORRM
He was the man who in 2011 conducted the ‘Review of editorial controls and standards’ which served for so long as the company’s fig-leaf. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 7:52 am
The firm has a committee made up of partners from across the firm reviewing proposals and is looking at an increasing use of fixed or capped fees for clients within its financial industry group (FIG), corporate and real estate practices, for transactional work. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 8:45 am by Dennis Crouch
. = = = = I have included Fig. 1 from the challenged patent above. [read post]
22 Dec 2022, 10:19 am by Kevin LaCroix
In addition to the lawsuit described above filed against Daktronics, plaintiff’s lawyers have filed a number of other lawsuits during the year against companies that experienced supply chain woes, including, for example and as described here, the lawsuit filed in November 2022 against women’s apparel company Torrid, and the lawsuit filed earlier in November 2022 against the healthcare apparel company FIGS (as discussed here). [read post]
12 Nov 2015, 11:01 am by Joe Consumer
” “This offer is an insultingly inadequate amount – a fig leaf attempting to hide the true depths of Volkswagen’s deception,” they said in a statement. [read post]
22 Jun 2009, 2:13 am
" If you really want to see health care costs balloon out of control, follow the Baucus path toward subsidizing private insurers (along with a a fig-leaf "co-op") to continue their present practices.To understand those practices, I highly recommend Joseph White's article Markets and Medical Care: The United States, 1993-2005. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 3:38 am
Public nuisance doesn't even come with the fig leaf of claimed improprieties in the FDA decision process. [read post]
20 Apr 2016, 9:39 am by Lyle Denniston
  What Congress had left for the courts to do in deciding the case, she said, was not just a “fig leaf. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 3:32 pm by Steve Bainbridge
" Despite Newt's fig leaf claim to love capitalism, there's not much daylight between Gingrich and Rasmussen when it comes to private equity, is there? [read post]
16 Mar 2012, 9:27 am
Given the widespread practice in the British Isles of dropping the initial 'h', many people --and most youngsters -- probably say 'Obbit already, so this Kat doubts that this olive branch will prove to be anything more than a fig leaf ... [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 8:28 am
Applicant's Fig. 1, below, shows a cross section of the wall with heating tubes 20: The Board therefore concluded that: [T]o interpret “completely embedded” as excluding a structure wherein some portion of the structure responsible for heating the container exits the container wall would be interpreting the term to exclude the structure described in Appellants’ preferred embodiment and dependent claim 6, wherein the heating means is connected to the engine cooling… [read post]
10 Apr 2010, 2:19 pm by Kenneth Anderson
 But in a society that holds to some public ideal that says that naked crony capitalism is still not okay — where some fig leaf covering self-dealing from the public fisc is still needed — this form of self deception is still crucial, as a matter of affect. [read post]