America seemed left behind, ossified, as other parts of the Western world, which generally share America's culture and values, revised their views and rules on social issues.
Well, while it's sitting there, it's vulnerable to somebody who hasn't got any food coming along and stealing it, and that means you've got to have social rules and regulations to be able to make sure that the system doesn't fall apart from people just stealing.
Some 2, 500 Danes did buy (cheaper) houses in southern Sweden last year, but tax and social-security rules still make it hard to live and work in different countries.
They seem to believe that Britain's place in the EU could be revised, so that, for example, power over some social and employment rules is repatriated, without affecting the country's place in the single market or that market's complexion.
Instead of the rules and social norms used in face-to-face meeting, they create ones for digital interfacing.
In the process, she gains a deeper understanding of the parts of herself that had been "cut off" by social rules and her own acquiescence in their logic.
This pays off because of obscure Social Security rules and some facts about life expectancy that aren't obvious if you don't make your living as an actuary.
Hearsay Social responded by giving companies a service that would let companies set business rules and monitor how well its employees were complying with those rules in their use of social networks.
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The paper concludes that "in financial terms alone, older people are no longer special", and it calls on the government to assess the evidence for existing rules on social security, taxation and the design of services.
So, we got these amazing social rules that completely change the relationship between social behavior and the food.
The ASA says it doesn't wish to "disregard anyone's beliefs, but specific claims targeted at people who may be seriously ill must comply with the rules on substantiation and social responsibility that apply to all other advertising".
Meritocracy is impossible in theory or practice without social structures that set and enforce sportsmanlike rules of the game.
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It was at this conference that the company announced that it would implement a more rigorous social auditing regime and extend US operating rules and processes to its overseas contractors.
Look closer, and who but the state can provide the necessary rules for trading standards, the environment, social rights and so on?
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Austen then considers how strategic thinking relates to other explanations of human action, such as those involving emotions, habits, rules, social factors, and ideology.
Abraham often speaks publicly for the different sects in the ultra-orthodox community, which has strict rules governing clothing, social customs and interaction with the outside world.
Having established modern architecture as the reality of contemporary life, he also reduced it to a set of rigid aesthetic rules stripped of its revolutionary social and technological meaning.
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The distribution of assets, and of the costs and benefits of different policies, as well as the role of trust, are all critical to the ability of societies to develop competent rules and institutions to address environmental, social and economic problems.
For a long time that social stigma, combined with restrictive planning rules and a powerful heritage lobby, inhibited further lofty schemes.
There was no talk in the chamber about energy, Social Security, Iraq or anything except judges and the rules that govern the Senate.
The good news is that social-protection rules are as feasible, and in the end no more costly, in a globalised economy than they are in a closed economy.
But he has now put on record that the rules on military engagement should be included and social rights - such as housing and free education - should also feature.
"Just because a couple is monogamish does not mean that they will be any more forgiving of a partner who breaks the rules and violates their trust, " says social psychologist Justin Lehmiller.
The bill will relax rules on developers to deliver social housing, and make it easier to install broadband infrastructure.
Lib Dem Steve Webb said about 100, 000 council and social housing tenants with jobs could be hit by the new rules.
The most successful scammers are the ones who are the best at reading people, understanding the social codes and creating the impression they are playing by the rules.
Like Part A and Social Security, their spending is determined by eligibility and payment rules and gets paid out of a trust fund (the Supplementary Medical Insurance or SMI trust fund).
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The rules for the daily deal offerings for Groupon and Living Social and the 500 or so other sites in this space are not exactly codified into law (at least not yet) but there are certain rules that people just understand as applying.
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At that time, the government swooped in with relevant rules, essentially telling companies like the social networking and gaming portal Tencent that customer use of QQ coins, or similar virtual currencies, to facilitate certain transactions was starting to look a lot like traditional banking activities.
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