In the UK, the election of the New Labour government in 1997, with Tony Blair as Prime Minister, began a series of reforms and reviews of most social programs. The reforms were designed to promote paid employment as the best way out of poverty, especially by making work pay (Sheldrick, 2000; Evans & Millar, 2006).
According to the criminal code of Alabama, obstructing governmental operations is defined by the following: (a) A person commits the crime of obstructing governmental operations if, by means of intimidation, physical force or interference or by any other independently unlawful act, he: (1) Intentionally obstructs, impairs or hinders the administration of law or other governmental function; or
Functional obsolescence is defined as the impairment of functional capacity or efficiency that reflects the loss in value brought about by such factors as overcapacity, inadequacy, excess operating costs, and changes in the art.unctional obsolescence can be further broken down into curable and incurable obsolescence. Curable obsolescence is a deficiency of an asset that can be remedied through addition or modernization. An example of this would be the replacement and update of a machine's computer numeric control (CNC).