1.   Texas Supreme Court justices recently heard arguments in both cases that could lower the hurdle for public employees suing their supervisors for retaliating against them.

2.   The amendment lowered the hurdles the Baby Bells would have to clear to prove their local markets had been opened to competition.

3.   The mental hurdles are lowered by constant encouragement from fellow runners and millions of spectators.

4.   The tracking stock, however, would not lower another hurdle to acquiring Sprint.

5.   The TSE also plans to lower hurdles facing subsidiaries of listed companies that want access to the capital that publicly traded shares provide.