First rule of online retailing: people have to be able to find your site.
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Which brings us to our first rule of office dating: Avoid a supervisor-supervisee relationship.
Back to the first rule: in banking, the laws of supply and demand do not apply.
The first rule is to avoid harming the very miracle that generates so much wealth.
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They called each other by their first names (never "Dad" or "son"), and the first rule was:no hugs.
GDP, the government can borrow quite heavily for some time to finance investment without breaching the first rule.
They will all tell you that the first rule is to stay alive.
Maybe they should, but all the major players insist their first rule is that it's up to the consumer.
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission must first rule on whether it would cut back on competition and harm consumers.
The first rule of bureaucracy is never to share information with a rival.
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When you think of yourself as a mini-CEO, you should follow the first rule for a CEO: Walk the floor.
The first rule of city government should be an unwavering commitment to delivering real value to the public with every tax dollar.
The first rule of financial analysis is to separate the two decisions.
The first rule of strategy is to keep your opponent busy attending to your agenda so he has no time to advance his own.
The first rule in dressing for dangerously cold: Layer, layer, layer.
The first rule is that conflicts should be avoided where possible.
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His first rule of thumb: Be scent-conscious in your day-to-day life.
"The first rule of tennis is you've got to play against your opponent and I was playing against myself so it was pretty tough out there, " said Kuznetsova.
The first rule of cool is to not act cool.
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"The first rule of thumb is to fix what you've got, " says Allen Adamson, managing director of the New York office of Landor Associates, a brand consultancy and design firm.
But the first rule of CSR (and of consulting in any other area) is to be true to your own social purpose, and that means only getting in bed with the right partners.
My good friend, Ron Morris, a highly successful serial entrepreneur whose most recent venture is his own business talk radio network, told me that his first rule of negotiations is to never, ever, ever trade cash for a promise.
But she will stress that the problems men and boys face are not receiving sufficient attention because - "like the film Fight Club - the first rule of being a man in modern Britain is that you're not allowed to talk about it".
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That last comment is yet another confirmation of the first rule for listening to either politicians or Sabbath Gasbags: whenever one of them is about to tell you what "the American people" want or what "the American people" believe, you would be well advised to hit the mute button.
Even though BP is in trouble, most sell-side analysts know the first rule of job preservation is to throw their support behind a beleaguered company in the faint hope that their firm may get a banking mandate if the company is the target of a takeover or is forced to sell itself.
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