The expanded powers of American courts have grown over the last decade, through judicial decisions and legislation.
Railroading through decisions based on personal beliefs, the Mayor's usual style, is not leadership.
The best way is to control growth through sensible incentives and decisions based on the earth's limits.
However, a planning authority can, through its development plans and decisions, alter the character of a neighbourhood.
Certainly there are individual bankers who show their prejudices through decisions on loan requests.
American business leaders, through cumulative decisions over more than 50 years, deserve credit for doing the most to create and usher in the global economy.
It highlights the problem of the military exerting pressure and pushing through decisions.
So now and then we should also try to do so through political decisions.
You fail to address the main problem: the administration's efforts to send oil development out of this country through taxes, environmental decisions and bad policy.
Using "what-if statements" to work through decisions, these tax experts point to how policy makers are inclined to act.