T-Mobile gets some credit for addressing the negative connotations of a legally binding agreement and an early termination "fee, " but if you want to keep the phone you obtained at the discounted price, you'll have to keep paying monthly installments until it's paid off.

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When clients try to end their contracts early, Cintas calls their attention to the binding-arbitration clause dictated in the contract.

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In the early 1990s, dermatologist Kevin Cooper, then at the University of Michigan, observed that the binding of CD-2 to LFA-3 set off psoriasis' chain reaction.

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They secured the removal of language contained in early drafts that spoke of a Copenhagen deal as a step on the road to a legally binding treaty.

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They would call for "the early adoption of a code of conduct in the South China Sea, " referring to a legally binding pact ASEAN would like to forge with China to replace a 2002 nonaggression accord that has failed to stop territorial skirmishes.

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So their early tactic is to belittle these debates by voting for them, in order to illustrate now how non-binding they are before they start to lose them.

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