The stores will be owned and run by Kohler, a departure from its usual practice of selling through distributors and hardware stores.

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Taxing depositors is seen by the market as a radical change from the usual practice, and doing so would give depositors in other debt-ridden countries an incentive to shift their money to banks in other countries, most likely Germany.

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This is the usual practice in financing Social Security benefits when there is a cash flow shortfall in Social Security.

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Enforcing the rule of law is not the usual practice of anyone in Haiti who wants to have a political career.

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But isn't it modern practice to retire at the usual age, or is a constitutional monarch as immutable as the pope?

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The usual practice is to invert this ratio to find what's called a capitalization rate.

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One plan is to extend the practice usual under English-style (as opposed to New York) law of allowing a majority of bondholders to agree to a rescheduling, rather than insisting on unanimity.

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