But "'don't apply, don't even try' is the opposite of American values, " New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said when the measure passed last month.
Sure, some of the key components of scores are basic common sense: Pay your bills on time, don't apply for credit you don't need, and try to keep your level of borrowing well below your credit limit.
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Groupon doesn't appear to be greatly concerned, insisting the laws don't apply to its business.
Warning: Congress calls this new provision the nonspouse rollover, although the normal "rollover" rules don't apply.
And many say that as trials become more complicated, some statistical measures of failure don't apply.
Truth in lending requirements don't apply to federal student loans, they're not subject to bankruptcy protection.
Or is the cyber world so fundamentally different that the old rules don't apply?
The new rules don't apply to stock sold in 2011 but acquired before 2011.
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The judge ruled that federal antikickback statutes don't apply to HMOs, so Chase hadn't committed a crime.
The rules don't apply to individuals who simply use virtual currencies to purchase real or virtual goods.
Because almost all couples in the study were heterosexual, the new findings don't apply to homosexual couples, researchers cautioned.
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First, European procurement rules don't apply to complex fighting ships, for reasons of strategic defence interests or 'sovereign capability'.
They also don't apply to mutual-fund transactions during 2011 or stock acquired in connection with a dividend reinvestment plan.
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Now you know that even though they caught you, the rules don't apply.
But the duties did prompt much of the production to shift from China to Vietnam, where the duties don't apply.
The judge ruled that federal antikickback statutes don't apply to health maintenance organizations (HMOs), so Chase hadn't committed a crime.
The takeaway here is that the old assumptions about a monochrome conservative electorate don't apply in coastal areas of South Carolina.
If you don't apply any (meteorological data) at all, you can miss the target by about 1, 640ft (500m) to 1, 970ft (600m).
As I said, many of the issues when it comes to large systemic banks and what precipitated the crisis on Wall Street don't apply to these smaller banks.
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But those rules don't apply to tablets, laptops and smartphones both for comics fans and those curious about characters they may have seen in film or on television.
It turns out that the NYSE's usual corporate governance requirements don't apply to foreign firms or those with 50% or more control in the clutches of a single entity.
The placement of a hand or positioning of the groom contains assumptions about physicality and gender roles that often don't apply to same-sex couples or even nontraditional straight couples.
Most OECD countries have announced increases in the retirement age (although the new French president, who seems to think the rules of maths don't apply to France, has done the opposite).
"Codes don't apply to what we're doing, " he says.
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Suddenly, the tenets of success we've followed since kindergarten don't apply, because getting ahead in the business world often has nothing to do with intelligence or exceeding a set of defined expectations.
We don't apply feelings to facts.
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So, while you may think catwalk trends don't apply to you, at some point this year you will almost certainly come into contact with an article of clothing that has been influenced directly or indirectly by what came down the runways for spring 2013.
Because the sample isn't representative of the general population, the results don't necessarily apply to young people in general.
It's more than fun beyond U.S. shores, where strictures against betting on the contest don't always apply.
Elliot says the study results don't really apply to the presidential candidates.
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