1. And states have always had enormous discretion to set welfare payment levels. 2. But Chiswick notes that Washington exercises enormous discretion in deciding which skills are needed, a process open to both bureaucratic inefficiency and political influence. 3. Even a lowly media planner has enormous discretion over where an advertiser spends its money. 4. Even in flusher times, the agency had enormous discretion in leveling fines. 5. For better or worse, modern capitalism requires shareholders to give executives enormous discretion. 6. For one thing, bank regulators have enormous discretion in ruling on applications for mergers, the opening or closing of branches and expansion into new financial services. 7. However limited, that would give prosecutors enormous discretion. 8. Or will Washington, given its enormous discretion over the fund, rely more on American law? |