Groups, and obviously business organizations, tend to give deference to individuals with perceived or actual status, often with little to no correlation with actual knowledge.

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Due to the changes in the taxation policies that have been recently ratified, IRS informs that LLC, C-Corporations and S-Corporations have to validate their EIN in order to confirm their actual status.

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He claimed, wrongly, that the State Department Bureau's of Intelligence and Research (INR) had, under his leadership, been the only intelligence agency to assess correctly the actual pre-invasion status of Saddam Hussein's various weapons of mass destruction programs.

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In general, as people cling ever more tightly to markers of elite status as a ticket to success, their actual cultural cachet is declining, due to everything from the atomizing forces of the Internet to the culture war and political gridlock.

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But, if it can be shown by the actual behaviour of states that a rule is widely enough accepted, such rules can attain the status of law, and be so recognised by courts and governments.

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