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  1. electrologist
    someone skilled in the use of electricity to remove moles or warts or hair roots
    But the Utah Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Board told her that she cannot practise her craft unless she first obtains a licence—which means spending up to $18,000 on 2,000 hours of study, none of it devoted to African hair-braiding.
  2. esthetician
    a philosopher who specializes in the nature of beauty
    But the Utah Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Board told her that she cannot practise her craft unless she first obtains a licence—which means spending up to $18,000 on 2,000 hours of study, none of it devoted to African hair-braiding.
  3. funeral director
    one whose business is the management of funerals
    But the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors has ordered him to “cease and desist”.
  4. cosmetologist
    an expert in the use of cosmetics
    But the Utah Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Board told her that she cannot practise her craft unless she first obtains a licence—which means spending up to $18,000 on 2,000 hours of study, none of it devoted to African hair-braiding.
  5. pettifoggery
    a quarrel about petty points
    The cost of all this pettifoggery is huge—unless, that is, you are a member of one of the cartels that pushes for pettifogging rules or an employee of one of the bureaucratic bodies charged with enforcing them.
  6. pettifog
    argue over insignificant things
    The cost of all this pettifoggery is huge—unless, that is, you are a member of one of the cartels that pushes for pettifogging rules or an employee of one of the bureaucratic bodies charged with enforcing them.
  7. embalmer
    a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives
    But the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors has ordered him to “cease and desist”.
  8. colour scheme
    a planned combination of colors
    What is the point of enjoying freedom from fear or want, after all, if you cannot enjoy freedom from poorly co-ordinated colour schemes?
  9. raj
    British dominion over India (1757-1947)
    But, as the Wall Street Journal has doggedly pointed out, America’s Licence Raj has extended its tentacles into occupations that pose no plausible threat to health or safety—occupations, moreover, that are governed by considerations of taste rather than anything that can be objectively measured by licensing authorities.
  10. trade unionist
    a worker who belongs to a trade union
    (Trade unionists who are also protected by licences enjoy a 24% boost to their hourly wages.)
  11. Schumpeter
    United States economist (born in Czechoslovakia) (1883-1950)
    Schumpeter
    Rules for fools
    The terrible threat of unlicensed interior designers

    May 12th 2011 | from the print edition

    IN 1941 Franklin Roosevelt added two new items to America’s ancestral freedoms of speech and worship: freedom from fear and freedom from want.
  12. feng shui
    the practice of arranging spaces for harmony and balance
    Uncle Sam will save you from bad feng shui

    You might imagine that Americans would be up in arms about all this.
  13. pressure group
    a group of people who try actively to influence legislation
    The Institute for Justice, a free-market pressure group, argues that this is only the beginning of the Raj’s sins.
  14. Sunshine State
    a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
    But when she tried to expand into Florida, the state’s Board of Architecture and Interior Design ordered her to delete all references to “interior design” from her website and stop offering “interior design services” in the Sunshine State.
  15. manicurist
    a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails
    Alabama obliges manicurists to sit through 750 hours of instruction before taking a practical exam.
  16. interior designer
    a person who specializes in designing architectural interiors and their furnishings
    Florida will not let you work as an interior designer unless you complete a four-year university degree and a two-year apprenticeship and pass a two-day examination.
  17. braiding
    trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
    But the Utah Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Board told her that she cannot practise her craft unless she first obtains a licence—which means spending up to $18,000 on 2,000 hours of study, none of it devoted to African hair-braiding.
  18. ordinate
    the value of a coordinate on the vertical axis
    What is the point of enjoying freedom from fear or want, after all, if you cannot enjoy freedom from poorly co-ordinated colour schemes?
  19. salivation
    the secretion of saliva
    Another suggested, even more alarmingly, that clashing colour schemes might adversely affect “salivation”.
  20. handyman
    a man skilled in various odd jobs and other small tasks
    The list of jobs that require licences in some states already sounds like something from Monty Python—florists, handymen, wrestlers, tour guides, frozen-dessert sellers, firework operatives, second-hand booksellers and, of course, interior designers—but it will become sillier still if ambitious cat-groomers and dog-walkers get their way.
  21. Python
    (Greek mythology) dragon killed by Apollo at Delphi
    The list of jobs that require licences in some states already sounds like something from Monty Python—florists, handymen, wrestlers, tour guides, frozen-dessert sellers, firework operatives, second-hand booksellers and, of course, interior designers—but it will become sillier still if ambitious cat-groomers and dog-walkers get their way.
  22. sail through
    succeed at easily
    For a while it looked as if the bill would sail through: Florida has been a centre of tea-party agitation and both chambers have Republican majorities.
  23. arranger
    a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise
    Today’s politicians offer a far more generous menu: freedom from unlicensed hair-cutters, freedom from cowboy flower-arrangers and, most important of all, freedom from rogue interior designers.
  24. cartel
    a consortium formed to limit commercial competition
    The cost of all this pettifoggery is huge—unless, that is, you are a member of one of the cartels that pushes for pettifogging rules or an employee of one of the bureaucratic bodies charged with enforcing them.
  25. unleash
    turn loose or free from restraint
    Nobody wants to unleash amateur doctors and dentists on the public, or untrained tattoo artists for that matter.
  26. stalling
    a tactic used to mislead or delay
    After all, the Licence Raj embodies the two things that Americans are supposed to be furious about: the rise of big government and the stalling of America’s job-creating machine.
  27. adversely
    in an opposing or negative manner
    Another suggested, even more alarmingly, that clashing colour schemes might adversely affect “salivation”.
  28. braid
    make by interlacing
    But the Utah Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Board told her that she cannot practise her craft unless she first obtains a licence—which means spending up to $18,000 on 2,000 hours of study, none of it devoted to African hair-braiding.
  29. technician
    someone who is trained in a specific process
    But the Utah Barber, Cosmetologist/Barber, Esthetician, Electrologist and Nail Technician Licensing Board told her that she cannot practise her craft unless she first obtains a licence—which means spending up to $18,000 on 2,000 hours of study, none of it devoted to African hair-braiding.
  30. delete
    cut or eliminate
    But when she tried to expand into Florida, the state’s Board of Architecture and Interior Design ordered her to delete all references to “interior design” from her website and stop offering “interior design services” in the Sunshine State.
  31. fetter
    a shackle for the ankles or feet
    Other rich countries impose far fewer fetters than the land of the free.
  32. Benedictine
    of or relating to Saint Benedict or his works
    Justin Brown is an abbot at a Benedictine abbey that supplements its meagre income by making and selling simple wooden coffins.
  33. patchwork
    sewing consisting of pieces of different materials sewn together in a pattern
    The patchwork of regulations makes it hard for people to move from state to state.
  34. desist
    stop performing some action
    But the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors has ordered him to “cease and desist”.
  35. boost
    increase
    Morris Kleiner of the University of Minnesota calculates that licensing boosts the income of licensees by about 15%.
  36. dessert
    a dish served as the last course of a meal
    The list of jobs that require licences in some states already sounds like something from Monty Python—florists, handymen, wrestlers, tour guides, frozen-dessert sellers, firework operatives, second-hand booksellers and, of course, interior designers—but it will become sillier still if ambitious cat-groomers and dog-walkers get their way.
  37. Gardner
    United States collector and patron of art who built a museum in Boston to house her collection and opened it to the public in 1903 (1840-1924)
    Barbara Vanderkolk Gardner runs a flourishing interior-design business in New Jersey.
  38. cowboy
    a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback
    Today’s politicians offer a far more generous menu: freedom from unlicensed hair-cutters, freedom from cowboy flower-arrangers and, most important of all, freedom from rogue interior designers.
  39. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
    But the people who care most about this issue—the cartels of incumbents—lobbied the loudest.
  40. cutter
    a cutting implement; a tool for cutting
    Today’s politicians offer a far more generous menu: freedom from unlicensed hair-cutters, freedom from cowboy flower-arrangers and, most important of all, freedom from rogue interior designers.
  41. pose
    assume a bearing as for artistic purposes
    But, as the Wall Street Journal has doggedly pointed out, America’s Licence Raj has extended its tentacles into occupations that pose no plausible threat to health or safety—occupations, moreover, that are governed by considerations of taste rather than anything that can be objectively measured by licensing authorities.
  42. fabric
    artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting fibers
    One predicted that unlicensed designers would use fabrics that might spread disease and cause 88,000 deaths a year.
  43. Morris
    United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816)
    Morris Kleiner of the University of Minnesota calculates that licensing boosts the income of licensees by about 15%.
  44. challenge
    a call to engage in a contest or fight
    If Republican majorities cannot pluck up the courage to challenge a cartel of interior designers when Florida’s unemployment rate is more than 10%, what hope has America?
Created on 五月 20, 2011 (updated 五月 20, 2011)

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