1.   If you thought death might free you of the cumbersome rules and fine print that bedevil frequent-flier programs, think again.

2.   Its members, many long content to pay their dues and remain anonymous, have come forward to complain about cumbersome rules and scant returns on their investments.

3.   Meanwhile, the organizers of the other concert extended their deadline for ticket sales and relaxed their cumbersome parking rules.

4.   These procedures allow the House to bypass normal cumbersome rules on non-controversial issues and require supermajorities to ensure that the measures are indeed non-controversial.

5.   Before that can happen the EU must overhaul its cumbersome housekeeping rules.

6.   But before it can do so, it must overhaul its cumbersome decision-making rules and reform its institutions to prevent the union from drowning in bureaucracy.

7.   But U.S. and even some European companies fear the cumbersome rules will stifle that growth.

8.   First, the EU must overhaul of its institutions and cumbersome decision-making rules, an effort that will start in March and will likely last a year.

9.   The EU will add new members but only after reforming its institutions and their cumbersome decision-making rules that were made for a club of six.

10.   Those negotiations will aim to lay the financial groundwork for expansion and streamline cumbersome EU decision-making rules that were made for a union of fewer than a dozen members.