101. The rules would make it easier for customers to use long-distance companies instead of Bell Atlantic to make toll calls. 102. The rule is intended make it easier for investors to understand how companies use derivatives by requiring disclosure of derivative transactions on corporate financial statements. 103. The rules would make it easier for companies to exempt their executives from having to surrender short-term profits made on stock trades involving routine compensation and benefit programs. 104. The simplest rules of language make no sense to them. 105. The rules made it a nightmare of paperwork for foreigners to buy stock, too. 106. The winner-take-all rule might make sense if states really embodied coherent, unified interests and communities, but of course they do not. 107. These rules make it possible to have a calorie-free day, and yet not go hungry. 108. They say more rules would make government flying operations more expensive, handicap fliers and cost some people their homes and perhaps their lives. 109. These rules might have made sense when the networks dominated television viewing and Congress feared they would use their might to squash independent producers. 110. They said state rules would have made Caller ID unprofitable by exempting millions of unlisted numbers. |