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 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.
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.
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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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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Remove barriers and red-tape for infrastructure construction.
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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.
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.
German news organization Der Spiegel reports that German companies are giving up their stock-market listings on U.S. exchanges because the red tape of Sarbanes-Oxley was onerous.
If we can -- if we can harmonize regulations in ways that avoid unnecessary duplication and red tape for business -- these are things that we need to do.
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The government has also promised to continue with its supply-side reforms, such as cutting red tape for small and medium-sized firms.
That means that although the company gets public funding, it will have wide latitude to set curriculum and rules, free of state-mandated red tape and union interference.
Filmmaker David Lynch was asked to provide visuals inspired by the tunes, but by the time he was done, the album was tied up in major-label red tape and its release was uncertain.
We need a new approach to governance that includes more respect not only for students in need of high-quality education but also for taxpayers, that has less job-killing red tape, and that fosters a more productive work force.
The chair of the session, the former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, said the continent needed billions of dollars of investment in infrastructure, but red tape and cross-border problems were getting in the way.
Among other things, Mr Clement suggests slashing taxes and red tape for small-business start-ups and for self-employed people at the bottom end of the wage scale, as well as easier credit for all Mittelstand firms.
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