FIRS and the need for continued reforms - Businessday Online
27 May 2012, 8:27 pm
She re-engineered our tax system and reformed a moribund entity to a modern organization by instituting legal framework that will guide our tax administration and drive the reforms in that sector for many years to come. During her leadership, nine bills ...

David Maraniss’s Biography Spills on Obama’s Pot-Smoking & More - Daily Beast
25 May 2012, 5:01 pm
The future president apparently made his mark on this group by instituting several smoking styles, such as “total absorption,” or “TA,” which, Maraniss writes, “was the antithesis of Bill Clinton’s claim that as a Rhodes scholar at ...

Harrisburg's young people need our help to save arts, athletics - PennLive.com
25 May 2012, 2:28 am
S uffering under the weight of a $13 million budget crisis, Harrisburg School District officials have proposed eliminating all athletic programs and instituting a “pay-to-play” system for high school sports. These are moves that might ...

EU Green Lights Tobin Tax, Britain Vows To Fight On - Traders Magazine
24 May 2012, 11:43 pm
The prospect of France and Germany instituting strict new regimes on financial services has many observers wondering if the net effect could be businesses in Paris and Frankfurt simply decamping for a friendlier regulatory environment across the English Channel.

Welcome To Miami Beach, Urban Kids, Now Go To Jail - Wonkette (satire)
24 May 2012, 9:32 am
Do not fear, Miami Beach! Sure, lots and lots of African American youths are expected on your white sand shores for Memorial Day weekend, but luckily your PD is ready for them, and that is by instituting a “quota” mandating that its officers arrest a ...

Minnesota Senate institutes hiring freeze - Pioneer Press
23 May 2012, 11:59 pm
The Minnesota Senate is instituting a hiring freeze but is not planning any staff layoffs, according to Senate Majority Leader Dave Senjem, R-Rochester. Savings on per diem payments, mileage reimbursements, travel and other expenses in the past ...

Dayton changes tow list threshholds - Dayton Daily News
23 May 2012, 11:27 am
DAYTON — The city Wednesday morning pared down the tow list for those with unpaid parking, redlight camera and speed camera tickets by instituting a payment plan and upping the minimum number of unpaid tickets to get on the tow list from two to three.

Vermilion schedules meeting on drug tests - Morning Journal
23 May 2012, 1:05 am
Earlier this year, the district suggested instituting a random drug testing policy for students possibly as early as the sixth grade. Previously, the district was looking at testing students playing sports, involved in extra curricular ...

CNN’s Shrinking Prime-Time Audience - New York Times Blogs
21 May 2012, 6:54 pm
CNN has seen its competitive position erode for several years without instituting significant changes in its overall approach. The network’s management has kept to its course of emphasizing news coverage and not the views of its prime-time personalities.

Zane Benefits Publishes History of Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) - YAHOO!
18 May 2012, 8:42 am
In the late 1960s, as inflation and other factors increased the cost of employer-sponsored health benefits, employers began instituting annual deductibles and coinsurance on their health benefits plans, and/or excluding coverage for certain medical items ...