If the answer is no, then your long-term objective must be to eliminate the program or regulation.

Eliminate regulations that inhibits companies from growing their business 2.

So far, big business has made out fine on some of the Republican initiatives, like eliminating costly regulations.

The bill would eliminate most Federal regulation of medical laboratories in doctors' offices.

Over the longer term, he said Japan must become more competitive by eliminating regulations that raise the cost of doing business.

Conservative Republicans liked the idea because it fit in with their goals of eliminating regulations.

But his stance is sure to rattle many industry figures who want to eliminate current regulations rather than add new ones.

He has created an agency whose sole purpose is to eliminate regulations that are deemed to cost too much.

He added that Tokyo would eliminate unnecessary regulations when appropriate - but only on its own terms.

And bureaucrats are reluctant to eliminate regulations because that reduces their power.