This is not just about arcane regulations keeping a seventeen-year-old from helping out his mother, or helping the teacher erase the blackboard.

"The good ones walk in with packages of arcane regulations, doctors and professional society notes, and a tape of their client with the doctor."

Now in some areas defense companies have been taking commercial technologies, dealing with these arcane regulations and applying them to defense contracts.

He said he would establish programs to educate companies about regulations so arcane that "the way a piece of paper is filed" can be a violation.

They formed a coalition and used the city's arcane regulations to practice a perfectly legal form of extortion.

In addition to the unpredictable drama on ice, faithful skating fans will be getting a weeklong lesson in the mysteries of the sport's arcane regulations.

Although an arcane federal regulation allowed the arming of pilots until July 2001, no one is more opposed to the current proposals than the airlines.

Japan announced a plan aimed at eliminating dozens of arcane regulations that have irked trading partners.

But today American officials treat Japan as a nation choking on its own bank failures and arcane regulations.

The former Bell companies have not shown much interest because arcane regulations make such acquisitions too costly.