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a mare's nest

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a mare's nest
a very confused situation The law on restrictive trade is a mare's nest that scarcely anyone can comprehend.
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There remain countless impediments to business efficiency, ranging from permit requirements to burdensome product approval processes, restrictions on marketing, pricing, and other rules and regulations that, superimposed on EU roles and regulations, create a mare's nest of complications that tie the hands of entrepreneurs and productive workers.
A robust fellow in A Mare's Nest, 2000, becomes queen, clown, and martyr, done up in an elaborate wig/halo and ruffled "collar," a collage of Lilliputian architectural renderings, corporate logos, flora and fauna, and the int ertwined limbs of tiny wrestlers and bodybuilders.
 
 
 
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