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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]
14 Jun 2009, 2:40 pm
The European entitlement mentality shows most distinctively in their willingness to pirate the inventions of others while covering themselves with a fig leaf of self-righteousness. [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 7:25 am
According to a research analyst at FIG Partners, an Atlanta based consulting firm, there are at least 49 Georgia banks that are at risk of failing. [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 1:07 am
Goodale, the former vice chairman of The New York Times and producer/host of the television program "Digital Age," writes: It denigrates the law to use it as a fig leaf. [read post]
1 Jun 2009, 4:34 am
Petitions to limit the specification of IR 875647 MYCOSMOS and 862157 mycosmos (fig.) that were requested by fax on March 20, 2008 and acknowledged by WIPO have also not been actioned. [read post]
22 May 2009, 5:10 am
So yes, I think it's an excuse - not to mention a fig leaf over the past - for this doc now to suggest that he and other physicians were simply swept along as passive victims of professional arguers, until one day they were ambushed by EMTALA - the final outrage. [read post]
17 May 2009, 10:13 pm
Beck & Herrmann believe that the supposed justifications for Albany's proposed abolition of the "learned-intermediary defense" (which essentially requires only that prescribing doctors be warned adequately of risks) "in all likelihood ... only serve as a fig leaf for what's... [read post]
15 May 2009, 1:31 pm
Again, what's proposed as a "cure" would only aggravate the supposed symptoms of the hypothetical disease.In short, the "justifications" are incoherent, and in all likelihood they only serve as a fig leaf for what's really just a hand out to the plaintiffs' bar.Remember that pledge to cut the costs of healthcare that the President extracted earlier this week? [read post]
15 May 2009, 5:38 am
We don’t need any more corporate fig leafs or lamentations from food safety regulators. [read post]
12 May 2009, 12:38 pm
As members of the American Law Institute ("ALI") we've been closely following the evolution of the Institute's Principles project on Aggregate Litigation ("PLAL") - read: class actions - ever since we joined. [read post]
4 May 2009, 5:55 am
The Man Room seems to have a copy of the announcement for this beer: Rejewvenator ferments nearly 500 gallons of Fig juice into a half doppleboch, half Belgian inspired dubbel hybrid lager/ale. [read post]
2 May 2009, 10:02 am
And might we start asking whether the resistance to nationalization among policy elites might be due to a need to avoid state responsibility for what is essentially state-funded action by maintaining a fig leaf of "private ownership" over the banking system? [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 5:55 am
Aromas of spiced pear and fig wafted from the glass, with hints of dusty meadows. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 9:59 am
(My guess is that some will, because some are sincere in their preference for major social change to come through the democratic process--but for many others the process arguments are fig leaves, covering antipathy toward same-sex marriage itself.) [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 7:15 am
” It’s the office that produced the “torture memos,” those shockingly ill-reasoned legal fig-leafs for the Bush administration’s policies regarding the treatment of “detainees in the War on Terror. [read post]
30 Mar 2009, 3:34 pm
Carving out a specific "permission" with respect to the tobacco cases alone, as some big firms did, is thus both redundant and a fig-leaf, a public relations gambit that helps them recruit young associates with a somewhat glorified and untutored sense of moral self, allowing them to feel good about declining these few cases while taking on work that might be every bit as disturbing. [read post]
28 Mar 2009, 4:40 pm
B.J. 1, 23 fig.2 (2007) (offering a running estimated grant rate of 59%-71% from 2000 through 2005). n22. [read post]
19 Mar 2009, 7:36 pm
Maloney, apparently ignorant of the 5th and 14th Amendments to the US Constitution, as well as the difference between government and private parties, and caring not a fig for the concept of "a deal's a deal," said that the government abrogated contracts all the time ("renegotiated" might have been the word that she used), and she gave bankruptcy court as an example. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 6:24 am
That's Mike Allen's assessment of a proposed health-care and carbon-tax jam down via the Budget Resolution, an end-run around the Senate's 60 vote rule, which has previously only been used for tax code changes impacting... [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 7:55 am
Among those who waited until the last minute were Martha Stewart (MSO) and Fortress (FIG). [read post]
