Since then, ports have been upgraded, roads tarred, and red-tape at border crossings trimmed.
They give their best customers the red-carpet treatment, not the red-tape treatment with onerous new regulations.
The Colorado legislature has slashed the price of government red-tape for permitting solar power arrays.
The suspected culprit is red-tape preventing U.S. educated foreign workers from living and working in this country.
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The General Services Administration (GSA) has set up a red-tape-laden process by which titles will be transferred.
Too much red-tape and compliance is a waste of money and it usually leads to fewer loans rather than more.
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George wants to see the country's red-tape unraveled to allow investment into its promising industries such as tourism and shipping.
Add to this red-tape in planning and financing new reservoirs and you have a strong case for a national water policy.
Is the chancellor who smothered public services with targets really the prime minister to free the police from all that red-tape?
In red-tape-bound Delhi, the private share of hospital care has shot up to 40% since investment restrictions were lifted in 1986.
Such projects usually face hurdles due to red-tape, such as obtaining clearances from multiple authorities, leading to time and cost overruns.
Decent police officers driven out by exasperation at the red-tape and bureaucracy have told us about the government's desperate record on this.
In recent years, the government has cut red-tape for new businesses, and boosted the tax credit for investment in research and innovation.
Napo head Harry Fletcher is also concerned the reorganisation could see an huge increase in red-tape as a new level of regional bureaucracy is created.
His main charge against Barack Obama is that he is too hostile to business, allowing red-tape to proliferate and deterring investment with talk of tax increases.
Some in the Obama administration must be disappointed by the lukewarm reception business leaders and the public have given to recent regulatory red-tape cutting efforts.
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If we cannot reduce unemployment, pay people real wages, and stabilize the economy as a whole, it may prove to be more of a red-tape burden than wonder drug.
It eased foreign investment restrictions in retail and civil aviation to attract overseas capital, and set up a panel of ministers to clear large industrial projects caught in bureaucratic red-tape.
Hoping to ease the likely slowdown brought on by the cuts, Athens have worked to introduce new rules aimed at cutting red-tape, which they hope will be passed and implemented by early April.
That's why personal electronic devices remain so closely restricted, but also why there's so much room for a smarter solution -- even if there are still reams of red-tape to overcome before anything changes.
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More freedom, via less red-tape, translates as slavery.
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Remove barriers and red-tape for infrastructure construction.
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He should now take steps to ensure that bureaucrats in his own Acquisition organization do not achieve through red-tape and other machinations the hamstringing of Mr. Bush's effort to end our vulnerability to missile attack so assiduously sought by Sen.
To do business in China, let alone buy Chinese assets, even the mighty Wal-Mart must partner with a Chinese firm to help it navigate a ghastly maze of local red-tape and corruption that has precluded the participation of many foreign firms.
What is absolutely fascinating is that if you dig a little deeper and look at the structural failures that are really holding back the Brazilian economy they are very (almost shockingly) similar to those that plague Russia: high taxes, insufficient investment, inefficient government spending, over-reliance on consumer spending, excessive government red-tape, unreliable courts, poor transport infrastructure, rent-seeking, persistent inflation, high interest rates, and (potential) de-industrialization.
At the time these laws were being debated, there were plenty of voices arguing they were unnecessary - more red tape binding business from the "right-on brigade".
Eric Harwit, a professor at the University of Hawaii, says they are contemplating South Korean- or Japanese-style protectionism: red tape and other non-tariff barriers.
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It was the year Malaysian rap group KRU got entangled in red tape -- and almost paid for it with their domestic concert tour.
Mr Shapps said the current laws increased costs for landlords and created unnecessary red tape - with an estimated 8, 500 landlord applications for houses of multiple occupations (HMOs) this year.
The proposal to cut the need for Criminal Records Bureau checks for adults working under supervision with children is part of the red tape-cutting Protection of Freedoms Bill currently being pored over in the Lords.
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