onerous
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California has historically been a market that data centers have tried to avoid when possible because of the state’s high land and power costs and its onerous legislation.
From Los Angeles Times
And I know Mayor Bass is trying to work on some modifications to make it perhaps less onerous.
From Los Angeles Times
One of the settlement’s most onerous requirements—at which investment banks have bristled for years—was the firewall that separates investment banking from research analysts.
For the companies, the deals secure protection from onerous tariffs and provide more certainty about U.S. drug pricing policy.
In an apparent compromise, he said the administration would target the “most onerous examples of state regulation,” adding that it wouldn’t push back on efforts such as child safety.
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